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Re: Animation tools
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 02:40
by Philo
druitre wrote:Hi Phil,
that copy/paste script reminds me of something that I've always wanted in SI. A bit different but a variation on it: simplified copy-paste keyfunctions in the timeline. So, selecting keyframe(s) and then hitting ctrl-c/x, going to other timeline position and hitting ctrl-v.
It's actually like having dopesheet abilities in the timeline, it speeds up the workflow a lot IMO.
For single keyframes you could even speed this up a whole lot more - just hovering over the timeline with the pointer would be enough to tell SI it's keyframe at current frame you want to handle. So ctrl-x cuts current keyframe, as long as timeline is area of interest.
Does SI recognize area of interest?
I've never done a tool that directly interacts with the timeline, I'll look into it and see if I can come up with something.
This week's tool is a request from a guy from work. A simple tool to quickly offset keys in the timeline.
http://philmelancon.wordpress.com/2012/ ... fset-keys/
Direct link to the script if you don't care about the how-to:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64117454/pmOffsetKeys.pys (Right-Click, Save as)
Cheers!
Re: Animation tools
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 19:04
by Sil3
Thanks for this cool scripts
Maya has a nice feature that let us change the Curves interpolation (Spline/Linear/Stepped) on the Timeline, we just select the Keys we want with a Region and Right Mouse Click to choose the pretended Interpolation. Its a nice way to show Blocking Animation even if we don't use Stepped to Block it out. Can this be done in Softimage?
Re: Animation tools
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 20:08
by bottleofram
@Sil3: Dont think so.
@Philo: Experiencing a problem with an 'offset by a chosen number of frames to the right'. I placed a couple of keys on every tenth frame. When i choose a number bigger than 10 to offset, only the last key gets moved. Choosing bigger numbers give even stranger results.
Re: Animation tools
Posted: 07 Mar 2012, 12:27
by Sil3
I know that by default it cant, I was just asking if theres a way someone could code a little tool for it hehehe
Re: Animation tools
Posted: 31 Jul 2012, 12:47
by GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel
First of all, thanks for all the scripts.
Here is a suggestion, maybe the 2 scripts copy animation, and offsset keys could be merged into one script, something like this :
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downl ... opyanim--2
Newcomer (<20 posts) alert: please use the URL tags - HB
Re: Animation tools
Posted: 08 Aug 2012, 21:42
by Philo
Hi all, sorry for being m.i.a. for so long... work has been (and continues to be) completely insane these last few months. I will get back to this eventually, probably in a month or 2 depending when/if things calm down a bit at work.
GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel:
I love that UI and combining those 2 tools would indeed make a lot of sense. Packaging and UI aren't my strongest skills so any suggestions are more than welcomed!
bottleofram:
I've reproduced the bug and couldn't get around it considering that the logic in the code should work. The only solution I could come up with was to use a different method to achieve the same results.
Sil3:
No idea if it's possible or not, I'll look into it but I can't make any promises.
I'll probably have a look at most of the tools once I get back to my blog, my coding knowledge/experience has grown a lot thanks to some awesome coworkers of mine and I feel like optimizing some of the code.
Cheers!