It hasn't bitten me yet.. .touch wood, but in the absence of any sort of duplicate symmetry tool that works, and rebuilding the entire opposite side from scratch, I haven't found a better solution, unless its the old Maya adage of 'just writing a tool for that '
Adam On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Enrique Caballero < enriquecaball...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been avoiding negative scaling in Maya as it's not as forgiving as > Softimage was with that. > > I used to mirror rigging components in softimage by scaling (-1,-1,-1) and > rotation x by 180. > > Worked just fine, used that technique in multiple productions (happy feet, > legend of the gaurdians used that as well) > > The only time that hurt me was when we wrote an animation library that > appended animation in space, and we needed to do a slightly different > calcultation for the right side of the body. Still no biggy. > > I've been too scared to do it in Maya though. I actually manually rebuild > the component in Maya with a different orientation. > > > I don't know if I'm being anal retentive, but when it comes to Maya I tend > to try to avoid shortcuts with transformations like that, as whenever I try > it tends to burn me > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Duplicate special with input graph checked on is the key to mirroring >> more complex hierarchies in Maya. >> That, and making sure every striking element involved in the rig needs to >> be parented under a group node that is at the origin. >> This group node and children is what you duplicate special with input >> graph selected, and then do the whole scale across X to -1. >> >> Everything comes across fine if you go that route, nodes, driven keys, >> etc. .. Of course then you also have to be aware of Joint orients flipping >> 180.. and address if necessary. >> >> I've kind of gotten used to Maya rigging now, but I really do miss the >> simplicity of our dearly departed XSI. >> >> Adam >> >> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Anto Matkovic <a...@matkovic.com> wrote: >> >>> Copy-paste of selected nodes, makes a copy of everything connected to >>> selected nodes, including hidden connections to layers, Node Editor >>> bookmarks, so on. ''Safe way'' could be saving a copy of scene, deleting >>> everything else (including layers and such), copying back to original >>> scene. Fortunately Maya could copy entire rig or elements from scene o >>> scene. >>> Duplicate in Node Editor makes a duplicate of only selected nodes, but >>> leaves them unconnected. >>> As alternative, it worth to try 'duplicate special' (from edit menu) >>> with some of available options, while this, by default, makes a copy of all >>> hierarchy bellow. >>> >>> IMO scripting for such tasks is usable if someone wants to follow some >>> exact tutorial or example, or someone is able to visualize complete rig >>> without even using Maya - but not really for experimenting and expecting >>> the 3d app to help in this process. Perhaps that addiction to scripting >>> could explain why almost all Maya rigs are not inventive, not original copy >>> of actual crap from Pixar or so. Individuality is not allowed in Maya >>> world.... >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* "p...@bustykelp.com" <p...@bustykelp.com> >>> *To:* Ben Barker <ben.bar...@gmail.com>; Official Softimage Users >>> Mailing List. >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_forum_-23-21forum_xsi-5Flist&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=eiykd10oQrDARfbGnKhZ32Z2pcfj7-Xz8LOMqIFA3Fg&s=zdxJ3elMMHzpj-E3AUPrMFVyADhuJr1y8WGIW_1ZK1w&e= >>> <https://u7507473.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=5SmYwFIJXHmC5X9wAP0G6iB4H67OtDu1LYz6krlc8-2FqBeLCXrELBQVbfMn71cNywwCM9MLKQNt6NvY2bdnUVgiRuzEw0g0OZUwVhB4KIDvkjTtq34l13Jmfjgwg01isCCK511SfOUct9zBCzgDFFRDQYDmMAnI51v58fSyJgwB-2Bw0HHExUkkOtQLVEEC4Qhtsu4bZyg5N-2FfAtwcPMobUPdkvDj8QW0p8f4FTefP2WavKn-2Fx65NPPlm7AfadGWXCfkHc9qfaMqjIImPprDPCrSzZ2VKrm3aO-2FQ-2BbdhcdcgirtEg4r6Id0hVef-2FpU1yTe6T9cdWQd0n3ZMWIoXhYpZRhwrFiH0HsCo2dnuF4wP549NX-2FDYXiWyxF1V6-2F1QCSMMy3S1xlT-2Fi1ChrnnlCJfGOzz7WMSt1T-2BrH0FDyG5U9ODUOg8oJxJoMA-2F5z0btvf4WgDxlFPonPVoRp74VnshrXe7mhwLahSUnSLepyK36mwH5R9gsPZz5KeKMiCGYautS3y9cDPmgOKXgmt46L8S5qi7hLVWmbZSKxeAgDjA21-2FdZV-2FjfhCzdp0Otjj4P8f9b8uy-2B-2FEMthm0CXhQi3ckrYYkHlIGsRsatW0MzHRrUUzxoZ7PdAL779lvIrbaMSc0AjGgEwFdS5qiC1SknHw0HZ-2B9QFOLAS7BPKZGptkrK2MyaruwKdK-2F-2FeHDkZq7OQ6WKqmCW2-2BOy1vBqtepruOMaRN-2F6JXvOnlPES-2FgiOYw88dSv9eMs9RMonVHyAOny-2FXp81aivEctBDSTxvmGqOwtQNcXVlRjz64oJe-2FRVaa8S4tlDaq2JTye56-2BaW03pSdSTDcvq62AfpEAy-2FOxxkNrlS-2BeJFEfPLRUfcn-2BoHDie7xf7TFwoUCejIoNNQ20-2FdyP-2BbAyGs-2BSbVAUYc5WpoajWUx7HYcBwxPWx9DwubH-2BXNqNt4RiVoYut-2FlaIM8yCdbeXfks9F1rcSKaKXzrjgbRGKOP6-2FE69HiDJJYSXxHOzx9WoOv46yz7eMvE5iPnhr69Zn_55OVOf0dA7tdn5YrALWfoPVrEyqfSHSqS65aS7jhVkBW4wzKe-2BEg8RV3c-2BWePePLmcPNJ98Z2mS2Xw8hrFSUJxcyd-2BNsWJAbGe0fVjISZweWo0YU2lh5s06yUWQVyOTHJzdtKTuHJXXkxWGO5Z8DBYnNWeg-2BlQ-2FGGXITFEBYcU2k1IdYP0rKjDPDB1BR3tuQLMhu-2FVn-2F-2BIi4VwQYyD8zj8KnEznPLxV5k4O2vpy0-2BVM-3D> >>> <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 1, 2018 4:32 AM >>> *Subject:* Re: Set Driven Key Copy/Paste in Maya >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> I decided to redo it with the Node editor.. Thinking it might work a >>> bit like ICE. However, after completing one leg, I discovered that you >>> can’t just copy and paste that stuff either as it makes all kinds of new >>> stuff in the scene. What a mess. I just don’t understand how Maya works at >>> all. >>> >>> I’m not going to make a scripted rigging pipeline, its not my thing. I >>> like being able to invent/experiment on the fly. 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