Deformers

Series of tools for working with deformers

• There’s a master basename, source and targets fields to work with and 3 modes.
• skinCluster
• Query
• Find verts with excess influence – created because maya doesn’t seem to honor it’s limits very well
• Select influences
• Copy
• First component to others (example – one vert to others)
• Vert from closest (checks the nearest vert to another vert regardless of if they’re on the same mesh)
• object to objects – easy to use skinning transfer. Queries influences from a source mesh, skins  the new to those influences. Copies the weights
• Utilities
• abWeightLifter(from Brendan Ross) – tool for working with influences in a more detailed manner
• blendshape
• Baker
• Bake out blendshapes from a blendshape node in case you’ve deleted the target shapes (supports inbetweens)
• Bake blendshapes from a source object to another object. After that, it rebuilds the blendshape node on the new object(with inbetweens) and transfers connections (as in from a rig) if you so choose
• Pose Buffer
• Create a pose buffer from a blendshape node to hook up a rig to
• Update a pose buffer with new shapes or remove deleted ones
• Utilities
• abSymMesh (from Brendan Ross) – Great tool for working with fixing blendshape based geo and symmetry issues with geo
• abTwoFace (from Brendan Ross) – Tool to split out symmetrical split poses from a full target shape
• Utilities
• Shrink wrap
• Shrink wrap components or objects to a source object
• PolyUnite
• Build and remove poly unite nodes to easily facilitate single mesh caching
• General
• Deformer Keyable Attr Connect – takes the keyable attributes from a deformer node or control, recreates those attributes on a new animation object control and connects them.