Supercrumbly

Skating Away

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:25:13 -0400

My Animation Mentor short film.

Script Updates

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:42:54 -0400

It's been a long time, I know. But I'm still here, and I've been updating scripts (really, I have). The updates appear in the "Recently Updated Posts" list down at the bottom of the page. But I don't think anyone looks at it. So, just to make it obvious for everyone, here are the of scripts that I've recently updated for Maya 2012.

abTwoFace: Now works in 2011 and up.

abKeyWrangler: I've been using this version for a while, and, for whatever reason, have taken my sweet time in updating the public version. Some of the improvements are (and I'm taking these from the update notes):

I've added previous/next blend slider under Blend Prev/Next sub menu (very very useful). Fixed a bunch of marking menu issues (no more flakiness). Adjusted UI and improved popup menu behaviour for 2011 and up. Added support for auto tangents in 2012 and beyond. Fixed a bug in curve cleaning.

I haven't updated the docs yet, but I just wanted to note that the previous/next blend slider will work whether you've selected individual keyframes in the Graph Editor, or one or more objects in a model view (in which case it will adjust/create keyframes at the current time).

abScriptMenu: I fixed a fatal crash (on 2011 and up) in "Script Quick Search" when the user hits enter with one result in the list. There are also a bunch of other accumulated tweaks and fixes since the last update (undocumented to me and the world).

abZoomRange: I fixed some marking menu weirdness in 2011 and 2012, and improved the install routine.

Robo Destruction Tee

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:59:34 -0400

A bit of a 2d/3d mashup.

abBatchFile 1.3

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:37:36 -0400

A handy little script that allows you to run mel commands on one or many Maya scene files (.ma or .mb). Once the specified script is run on a file, it can be saved (or not saved) in a variety of ways.

Doodling in Colors

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:23:31 -0500

is fun.

abScriptMenu 1.6

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:02:06 -0500

This script allows you to create a menu item in the Maya UI that contains all of your scripts, organized however you want.

abMakeUnlinkedInstance 1.2

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:58:57 -0500

Make instance-like copies from any selected mesh (or meshes). The cool thing is that you can modify the resulting meshes without affecting any of the other peer or parent "instances".

Also: Yay! My first Python script.

abKeyWrangler 2.91

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:12 -0400

Retime, insert, and clean up keyframes, and other useful keyframe stuff.

Wagon

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:46:34 -0400

abToggleUIVis 1.0

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:18:46 -0400

This script replaces Maya's default ctrl+space behavior. It will restore your UI setup when you toggle between your default and full screen workspace. If, for example, you enable the Range Slider in the full screen view and then toggle back to your default UI, the Range Slider will be restored the next time you toggle the full screen view.

It's a little thing, but it's useful.

abConnectAttToMultObj 1.0

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:36:36 -0400

This smoothly named little script will allow you to quickly connect an object attribute to an attribute on many objects. It's good for connecting a control curve attribute to visibility or smoothing (etc.) on lots of objects.

abReplaceCommandIcons 1.1

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:07:58 -0500

The default melScript shelf button icons in 2008 are so visually busy that it's difficult to read the text overlays. They're annoying enough that I wrote this script to change them.