GEAR 1.1 released

[rray]

Jeremie released version 1.1 of GEAR!

GEAR is an open source project to provide a complete and production quality tool set for rigging and animation inside Autodesk Softimage™. It includes a lot of tools to ease the rigging and animation process.

It's not released under the StudioNEST label anymore, so note the new location which is
http://gear.jeremiepasserin.com/

v 1.1.0
NEW COMMANDS
- Make Rigid Island (Deform/Envelope)
- Apply Spine Point At Op (Rigging/Solvers)
- Add Cluster Center (Modeling)
- Copy Wireframe Color (Rigging/Tools)

BUG FIXES
- Head reference switch wasn’t working properly (fixed by Eric T)
- Arm template was broken
- Copy Envelope with Gator now works with groups
- Apply Spine Kine Op was limited to 20 objects
- Create Mapping Template now works with multiple selection

RIG FIXES
This release require a guide update ! Character > Update Guide
Some animation are not compatible with previous version.
leg_3jnt_01 was not scalable
leg_2jnt_01 twist issue when knee is inverse (dog front leg issue)
control_0 Added rotorder preference
spine_ik_01 and neck_ik_01 rotorder changed to “XZY”
chain_01 Added optional set neutral pose
tail_01 Plot tail wasn’t working
meta_01 wasn’t build properly when guide scaled

previous release notes:

v 1.0.6
RIG FIXES
leg_3jnt_01 was not building

v 1.0.5
RIG FIXES
meta_01 was not built properly on right side

v 1.0.4
BUG FIXES
- Duplicate Symmetry was not changing properly the side of the component

v 1.0.3
BUG FIXES
- Ik/Upv Reference were not properly mirrored
- weight map tools were not working because of tuple conversion missing
- resample curve op wasn't working because of wrong operator name

RIG FIXES
arm_2jnt_01, leg_2jnt_01, leg_3jnt_01, wing_2jnt_01 Start twist was failing in extrem position
chain_01 wasn't working when activating ik mode
meta_01 was breaking when twisting the controler

Moderator edit: I've split this into a new thread as it deserves its own highlighting, now its "under new management" IMHO.
I added the quote on "what GEAR is" for clarity's sake now it's a new thread. - HB

[origin]

Excellent, thank you!!

[Hirazi Blue]

Great news. Good to see another valuable project survived the alleged, apparent problems at StudioNEST...

[Maximus]

thats good, thanks for effort, too bad i cant install it, python causes me so many headhace with softimage, i gave up

[Nizar]

Really nice, I will give a try.
Thanks

[spurv]

Hi, I installed Gear but the menu GEAR doesnt show up... do I need to do something else?

[Hirazi Blue]

Did you set your "PYTHONPATH" correctly so GEAR can find its libraries?

[spurv]

hmmm don't think so... where can i do that?

[Hirazi Blue]

To not repeat this unnecessarily:
the procedure is described on page 6 of the gear_doc.pdf
under "II. INSTALLATION" > "b. Install GEAR’s Python libraries"...
;)

[spurv]

ok man thank you very much!

[spurv]

I cant get it to work


# ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<Script Block >", line 1, in <module>
# import gear
# ImportError: No module named gear
# - [line 1]


I installed Python as said in XSI - Wiki

Then all the env var paths for c:\python and modules.

When i run:

import gear
gear.logInfos()
##
# GEAR version : [1, 0, 0]

it gives me the error....

Im doing something wrong im sure...

[Hirazi Blue]

First thing you could try is an ordinary restart of Softimage before running the test...
(I even read one comment on the XSIBase where it was fixed
after rebooting the computer, but that's more of a last measure...)
If that doesn't work, please share the exact content of your PYTHONPATH environment variable
and the exact path to the modules folder
as it looks as if there's still something wrong there.
;)

BTW - What version of Softimage are you using?

[spurv]

Im not at the office now but I remember that I copyed modules folder to user...softimage....addons\gear.
Im using Softimage 2011.5.

I have python26 and 32 in my c:\ is this correct? And i set them on windows syst. Env. Var. PATH

I restarted my comp several times....

[Hirazi Blue]

First of all: if you're using Python for Softimage only, you don't need the Python 3 installation, as Softimage only works with the Python 2.6... Make sure that the scripting language in the "Scripting Preferences" is set to the correct Python. (And you could use the "internal" Python (the one Softimage installs "embedded" in Softimage), although I can't recall if that gets installed automatically)
Secondly: the only thing I can think of at the moment (but it's still early for me... ) is that you may be pointing your PYTHONPATH to the wrong folder: it must be pointing to the "modules" folder, not to the "gear" folder that lies within it. To : the folder structure is "modules/gear", but you must point the PYTHONPATH to "modules", not to "gear"...
However, if this isn't it: don't despair! We'll get there somehow...

[Rork]

Wicked!! Good to see this is still moving forward

Just two quick questions:
- Can we just replace the current files with the new ones?
- And are the demoscenes updated as well?

cheers,

rob

[spurv]

OK Guys, I did it, the problem was that I had PYTHONPATH defined on setenv.bat with the wrong path, and it was conflicting with the one on Windows System Set Env.

Tks !!!