At last, I'm starting to do demo Videos and have just setup a Vimeo channel. Over the next few weeks I'll add many more hopefully! This first one demonstrates a few of the new features in v1.08.
Red9 StudioTools have been born out of frustration at Autodesks reluctancy to add some of these core features and workflows into Maya itself. Why OpenSource, well I want to give something back to the industry as I feel damn sorry for studios without the benefit of a large R&D department to craft pipelines around them. The Studio Pack is designed to speed up a modern animation pipeline. All comments and suggestions are welcomed. For more info mail me :)
Hi after installing this yesterday via userSetup.py and following along with this video I can't seem to use the Animation_Toolkit>TimeOffset>Hierarchy tickbox.
ReplyDeleteWith it ticked and clicking 'Offset', I just get:
# Red9.core.Red9_CoreUtils : Switching to SELECTED ROOTNODE HIERARCHY Processing Mode #
# Error: StandardError: list index out of range #
I appreciate that red9 comes as is you your probably very busy, but hey, asking is worth a shot right? ;-)
No I'm happy to support the toolkit so ask away.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like you haven't got anything Selected, or rather, the main processor hasn't returned anything to manage. If you've got the hierarchy flag ticked then the tools use the setup in the Hierarchy tab to filter for specific child nodes. I need to do more detailed videos of that really as it's the heart of the entire package.
Go to the Hierarchy tab and hit the test, that shows you what the hierarchy filter will pass to all the functions based on the options. If all the fields are blank in that UI, including the MetaRig checkbox off, then the filter should give you back a standard hierarchy, no filtering... if that makes any sense
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Yup, looking at the code the Hierarchy filter didn't catch anything hence the error. I've added a better warning message in that block so at least you know that that's the problem now.
ReplyDeleteI should also mention that in the 'Available Presets' list in the Hierarchy_Control tab there's one for 'Standard_Hierarchy' which does just that, turns off all the hierarchy processing and just does a blind listRelatives on the given nodes, kind of like Maya does by default with it's hierarchy checkboxes.
Maybe this should be the default when I ship the pack? Whatever you select in that list is remembered in a config file between sessions anyway