Week of 11.30.2020

[jjburton]

• Builder | better select menu
• Dragon | address Brian Notes
• Bat | update with dragon issues notes
• Rael | update

Next week...

• Config framework

[jjburton]

Dragon Notes from Brian

Dragon Rig 3

Nice to have

• When using IK wings and rotating the ik handle in X what about some sort of automatic left/right adjustment for the two inner wing segments? Maybe a slider for it under the ik handle to adjust the "follow" weight? see image 01 (As an example while rotating inward)
  -- This is a good idea. Try on next build. See how to best tackle.
  -- Setup orientTo driver that follows root with a blend on an orient Constraint driven by the joint at and below
• When in ik wings it would be nice if the root pinky bones would point to the pole aims, atleast slightly, much like the above weight comment.

Minor

• When moving wing pinky root, ring root follows 1:1 which requires some counter animation. What about offsetting that weight,
  much like what ring does to middle?
• feet do not appear to be completly flat when zeroed oud, not sure if its just me...
• FK foot controls are a bit hard to see/select, they blend into their parent controls (josh - agree here, regular issue with proximals I've found)

Broken

• dragon_rig_03:neck_0_ikBase_anim rotates with ik head control but dragon_rig_03:tailBase_ikBase_anim doesn't with ik tail nib, I expected the same behavior.
• rotating dragon_rig_03:L_wrist_fk_anim doesn't make the finger joints move informly like the right side.
  same for dragon_rig_03:L_UPR_index_0_fk_anim
  same for dragon_rig_03:L_UPR_pinky_0_fk_anim

From chat

• Longer neck
• add back dangle thumb toe
• Push thumb in to mesh more
• leg proxy letting extend to ends

baseTalon tmp

Wrote a call to setup a make the base of the feather setup follow the wrist/forearm better
RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('L_UPR_ring_limb_part')
RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('R_UPR_ring_limb_part')

Build 2

• Look and front fingers/thumb. Thumb rotates too much in the meat

• Look at wing main rotate axis to see if that's what causing a flip

• Pinky tracking weird

• Thicken wing structure

• Let's try moving pinky further in

• Wing base must be FREE ikRPAaim setup

Build 3

• Lose wing roll joints. We need vector handles
• pushing settings pushed the side value. the right wing is all tagged left and borked
• Front paws too big maybe?
• Membrane longer on body
• Wing tines a little less meaty

Bat | update bat rig from dragon changes....

[jjburton]

BUILDER | Better select menu

• Get rid of the auto build thingy. Takes loo long
• Turn that into a generate picker button

New base

• Select Roots
• Build picker

I tried doing this in the menu with a build on call setup. However I think this isn't very intuitive. Instead I think I'm going to try repurposing the BlockEditor ui and make it a BlockPicker UI. The framework is there for pretty much what I want it to be.

First pass

• Reworked BlockEditor to new Block Picker
  https://twitter.com/CgMonastery/status/1333499328292409346

Cleanup

• Get rid of select menu
• Clean up multiblock popup
• BUG | Load block state was borked.
• Select added to root

LIMB |

• aim joint handles down line
• added create joint handles to pop up

[jjburton]

Dragon Post

import cgm.core.rig.constraint_utils as RIGCONSTRAINT#...this imports our module
reload(RIGCONSTRAINT)#...reload if you make any changes to the module
import cgm.core.mrs.lib.post_utils as MRSPOST
reload(MRSPOST)


RIGCONSTRAINT.wing_temp(RIGCONSTRAINT.d_wiring_r_dragonWingFrame)#...wing frame
RIGCONSTRAINT.wing_temp(RIGCONSTRAINT.d_wiring_l_dragonWingFrame)#...wing frame

RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('L_UPR_ring_limb_part')
RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('R_UPR_ring_limb_part')

#wing stuff
l_left = ['L_UPR_thumb_limb_part', 'L_UPR_index_limb_part', 'L_UPR_middle_limb_part', 'L_UPR_ring_limb_part', 'L_UPR_pinky_limb_part']
l_right = ['R_UPR_thumb_limb_part', 'R_UPR_index_limb_part', 'R_UPR_middle_limb_part', 'R_UPR_ring_limb_part', 'R_UPR_pinky_limb_part']
for l in l_left,l_right:
    MRSPOST.SDK_wip(l,skipLever = 0,)


l_left = ['L_BCK_thumb_limb_part', 'L_BCK_index_limb_part', 'L_BCK_middle_limb_part', 'L_BCK_pinky_limb_part'] 
l_right = ['R_BCK_thumb_limb_part', 'R_BCK_index_limb_part', 'R_BCK_middle_limb_part', 'R_BCK_pinky_limb_part'] 
for l in l_left,l_right:
    MRSPOST.SDK_wip(l,d_attrs = MRSPOST.d_talons, skipLever = 0,)

l_left = ['L_thumb_limb_part', 'L_index_limb_part', 'L_middle_limb_part', 'L_ring_limb_part', 'L_pinky_limb_part'] 
l_right = ['R_thumb_limb_part', 'R_index_limb_part', 'R_middle_limb_part', 'R_ring_limb_part', 'R_pinky_limb_part'] 
for l in l_left,l_right:
    MRSPOST.SDK_wip(l,d_attrs = MRSPOST.d_dragonFront, skipLever = 0,)

[jjburton]

Roll setup is just not working well on wings. Need to iterate.

[jjburton]

Stuff

• BLOCKUTILS.blockMirror_settings | cgmDirection added to mask to avoid a rather annoying bug encountered

[jjburton]

Segment

• joint helpers | same count joint helpers not getting names
• pre | mid ik handle wasn't getting parent to prerig null

Setup the mid segment handle to track with the deformation curve...this feels much more intuitive. Want to do this with the start and end as well. The question is if I keep a live track or just simplify with a param on the curve. I think the param makes more sense.

Prerig

• Add track groups per handle
• Same for cog dag

[jjburton]

3.4.8 push ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[jjburton]

Bat Build

• Builder - add visJoint handle handle toggle
• Store release versions at state changes to better track states of blocks

Template 5

Update blocks

• Spine
• Head
• Arm
• Tines
• Legs
• Toes
• Ears
• Tail

Arm
-rebuilt pre
-clav little deeper for more range
-tines straightened
-tines base rotates changed for consistency on sdk setups

Legs

• pivot size still weird....was just the mirror pull from the old side

Fixes...

• Get arcs out of tines in wings. Straighter model deforms better at anim time
• [ ]

###Build 1

• forgot to do tail repre
• wings a bit too big but proportions nice
• widen body?

[jjburton]

Vid

• bg color

• lighting

• cgm menu | create linear/cubic

• Sort dags

• Push sub shapes

• Form mesh vis

• New Select

• Picker

• Form mesh vis

• Color dags

• Send to build ui

• Scene

• Editor - roll

• Pop up joint handles

• segment pre

• slide param

[jjburton]

From Bat

• Post call | hide visSub

• Post Call | sort part dags

• Marking Menu | fixed bug where blendsnap wasn't working

[jjburton]

Bat post

from cgm.core.lib import rigging_utils as RIGGING
reload(RIGGING)

RIGGING.create_at(mc.ls(sl=1), create= 'cubicTrack')

import cgm.core.rig.constraint_utils as RIGCONSTRAINT#...this imports our module
reload(RIGCONSTRAINT)#...reload if you make any changes to the module
import cgm.core.mrs.lib.post_utils as MRSPOST
reload(MRSPOST)

RIGCONSTRAINT.wing_temp(RIGCONSTRAINT.d_wiring_r_bat)#...wing frame
RIGCONSTRAINT.wing_temp(RIGCONSTRAINT.d_wiring_l_bat)#...wing frame

RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('L_pinky_limb_part')
RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('R_pinky_limb_part')

RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('R_spur_limb_part',[0,1])
RIGCONSTRAINT.baseTalon_tmp('L_spur_limb_part',[0,1])

#wing stuff
l_left = ['L_index_limb_part', 'L_middle_limb_part', 'L_pinky_limb_part', 'L_spur_limb_part']
l_right = ['R_index_limb_part', 'R_middle_limb_part', 'R_pinky_limb_part', 'R_spur_limb_part']
for l in l_left,l_right:
MRSPOST.SDK_wip(l,skipLever = 0,)

l_left = ['L_thumb_toe_limb_part', 'L_index_toe_limb_part', 'L_middle_toe_limb_part', 'L_pinky_toe_limb_part']
l_right = ['R_thumb_toe_limb_part', 'R_index_toe_limb_part', 'R_middle_toe_limb_part', 'R_pinky_toe_limb_part']
for l in l_left,l_right:
MRSPOST.SDK_wip(l,d_attrs = MRSPOST.d_batToes, skipLever = 0,)

[jjburton]

Finger Deformation Helpers

Let's start this thing.

• New branch. Won't roll this in to dev branch till 4.0 locks
• To begin, I'm going to just going to to Morpheus 2.0's finger setup.
• Going to make this a new block type. May need to make this multiple types

[jjburton]

3.4.8.1.20 MRSDEV | 12.03.2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Griffon

• Slight shift. Going to update Rael the Griffon to test MRS for locking 4.0 release.

• Gr

• Grab old puppet mesh for reference

• Setup

[jjburton]

Builder

• Head | turn off aim head by default