cgmTools Build — Fall 2016

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Sometimes you just gotta ship something.

For a LONG time now, I’ve been struggling to get Morpheus 2 where I wanted it. Having a small window to get something done because of personal stuff, I wanted to get something done. It’s also been way too long since we’ve released a ‘solid’ tool build so wanted to do that here.

I’ll keep this post updated with new builds as they become more stable until the next major release.

• Build – 09.22.2016
  • Path fixes that may have been causing some folks issues
  • Soft selection evaluation base functions in
  •  math
    • Most math functions now work with soft select evaluation
    • Added Reset to Targets to Base section
    • Added CopyTo to Target Math section
• Build – 09.21.2016

So, I made a new tool encompassing a chunk of the tech from Morpheus 2’s development into a manner that is more user friendly. An overview of some of the tech added:

• Versions — Things should be working from Maya 2011 – 2017
  • 2017
    • Worked on resolving a host of issues. From gui hard crashing to zoo.path stuff mentioned in a blog post last month.
• Help — cgmTools>Help
  • Added Report issue — link to bit bucket report issue form. Please use this to re port issues.
  • Get Builds — link to page to download wip builds
• cgmMeshTools — cgmTools>rigging>cgm.meshTools.
  •  MeshMath
    • Symmetry evaluation implemented
    • Base to targed functions/selections
    • Lots of math functions for working with mesh targets – normally blendshape work.
  • Ray Casting
    • ClickMesh
      • Added Nurbs Support
      • Added Snap support – Select targets, activate and snap stuff to any geo you have loaded as targets or in the scene. This is something I wanted to do way back when I first started playing with rayCasting and I’m happy to check that box
      • Follicles on nurbs now work
    • Curve Slice — Lathe curves from objects within mesh objects
    • Curve Wrapping — More advanced curve lathing
    • Implemented multi surface casting to most functions
  • Utils
    • Proximity Mesh/Query — Create proximity mesh or selections from one mesh to another
• Snap Making Menu — cgmTools>Hotkeys>Snap Tools
  • Added the rayCasting snap
• cgmMeta
  • A lot of the optimization from last month is in the build.
• Web documentation
  • Check the side bar here to find the new tool sections (meshTools, cgmMMSnap)
• cgmHotkeyer
  • Back with Maya 2016, zoo’s hotkey setup no longer worked because of Maya changes. We wrote our own and all hotkey setup uses that now.
• Other stuff – as the last post released build was years ago, there is a HUGE amount of tools and functions implemented.

j@cgm

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