Week 3 Progress

This week I worked on finishing the rig, procedural layout in houdini, and pyro look development.

Rig

The rig has been tested and approved by our animator.

Rigging Scripts

I wrote some quick python scripts for maya to help me with this rig to automate and increase accuracy.

import maya.cmds as cmds


def joints2curve():
    
    curve = cmds.ls(sl=1)[0]
    curve_point_count = cmds.getAttr(curve + ".spans")+1
    cmds.select(d=1)
    prev_joint = ""
    root_joint = ""
    
    for i in range(0,curve_point_count):
        joint_name = f"curve_JNT_0{i}"
        joint_pos = cmds.getAttr(curve + f".ep[{i}]")[0]
        joint = cmds.joint(n = joint_name, p=joint_pos)
        print(joint_pos)
        print(joint)
        
        if i==0:
            prev_joint = joint
            root_joint = joint
            continue
        
        cmds.joint(joint, e=1, zso=1, oj = "xyz")
        prev_joint = joint
    cmds.joint(root_joint, e=1, oj = "xyz", secondaryAxisOrient = "xup",ch=1, zso=1)
            
joints2curve()

import maya.cmds as cmds

def pivot2joint():
    
    # Select control and joint and run to snap control pivot to joint
    
    selected = cmds.ls(sl=1)
    
    ctrl = selected[0]
    jnt = selected[1]
    jnt_pos = cmds.joint(jnt, q=1, p=1)
    cmds.move(jnt_pos[0],jnt_pos[1],jnt_pos[2], ctrl + ".scalePivot", ctrl + ".rotatePivot", absolute=1)
        
pivot2joint()
    

import maya.cmds as cmds


def joint2pivot():
    selected = cmds.ls(sl=1)

    obj = selected[0]
    jnt = selected[1]

    obj_rpivot = cmds.getAttr(obj + ".rotatePivot")[0]

    cmds.move(obj_rpivot[0], obj_rpivot[1], obj_rpivot[2], jnt)

joint2pivot()