GEAR_mc
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GEAR_mc
Miquel Campos of TD Survival fame is actively continuing development on Jeremie Passerin's popular modular rigging
toolset for his personal work and his work at Shed Montreal. With the original GEAR no longer being in development, GEAR_mc can be viewed
as GEAR 2.0 even though today it's officially still a project fork.
GEAR is an open source project to provide a complete and production quality toolset for rigging and animation inside Autodesk Softimage. It includes a lot of things to ease the rigging and animation workflows. Anyone should be able to build custom rigs using GEAR. It has been designed to be flexible and relatively easy to use. Even non-riggers can create advanced rigs and animate them easily, but the system is also open to further expansion so TDs can create their own »components« and use them inside of the GEAR Rigging System. Furthermore, everything is accessible through scripting with a complete API to automate as much as possible.
What's new [in GEAR_mc]: New Menu re-arrange New Facial components New options for icon creator Selection sets and poseLib not part of Gear poseLib should work now in Linux (but not tested) Zipper tool for curves New solvers Wireframe color tool Guides support for store wireframe color New commands for inspect Guides PPG and solvers options Command for merge symmetry mapping templates.
Miquel demoing some of the additions to GEAR_mc: Installation / Icons / Zipper / Wireframe Colorizer / Solvers. Original GEAR Videos are available on Jeremie's blog and original GEAR page as well as on Jeremie's vimeo channel. Note this plugins includes the »Shed Tools« addon (below).
local backup: GEAR_mc-1.0.15.zip
GEAR is an open source project to provide a complete and production quality toolset for rigging and animation inside Autodesk Softimage. It includes a lot of things to ease the rigging and animation workflows. Anyone should be able to build custom rigs using GEAR. It has been designed to be flexible and relatively easy to use. Even non-riggers can create advanced rigs and animate them easily, but the system is also open to further expansion so TDs can create their own »components« and use them inside of the GEAR Rigging System. Furthermore, everything is accessible through scripting with a complete API to automate as much as possible.
What's new [in GEAR_mc]: New Menu re-arrange New Facial components New options for icon creator Selection sets and poseLib not part of Gear poseLib should work now in Linux (but not tested) Zipper tool for curves New solvers Wireframe color tool Guides support for store wireframe color New commands for inspect Guides PPG and solvers options Command for merge symmetry mapping templates.
Miquel demoing some of the additions to GEAR_mc: Installation / Icons / Zipper / Wireframe Colorizer / Solvers. Original GEAR Videos are available on Jeremie's blog and original GEAR page as well as on Jeremie's vimeo channel. Note this plugins includes the »Shed Tools« addon (below).
local backup: GEAR_mc-1.0.15.zip
author site: http://www.miqueltd.com / author @ vimeo / download: repository @github / API Docs / si-community thread
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Hey Miquel can you show the new facial tools?
And thanks a lot for keeping the gear flame alive!
And thanks a lot for keeping the gear flame alive!
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Great plug-in.
Not a complaint, but rather a wish - I really hope someone will take a deep breath, roll up their sleeves and implements something similar with ICE. Due to ICE's multi-threaded nature I'm guessing very complex rigs would be very fast.
Not sure about customization though as I have no idea how well does ICE can be mixed with Python, jscript and whatnot for different UI cues and interaction. Someone knowledgeable enough with ICE and scripting maybe will shed some light on this.
Not a complaint, but rather a wish - I really hope someone will take a deep breath, roll up their sleeves and implements something similar with ICE. Due to ICE's multi-threaded nature I'm guessing very complex rigs would be very fast.
Not sure about customization though as I have no idea how well does ICE can be mixed with Python, jscript and whatnot for different UI cues and interaction. Someone knowledgeable enough with ICE and scripting maybe will shed some light on this.
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ICE is terribly slow with writing and reading transformations of object (like nulls).
I tried some rigging with ICE to control null (bones) behaviour for rigging some mechanical stuff (e.g. just reading and writing transform between objects) and it was much slower than old constrains/scripted operators.
The ICE kinematics require different setup and is hard to script.
I didn't found any easy way to get nodes that generates errors throught scripting. That makes building and fixing rigs only slow manual labor which doesn't pay off.
ICE is pretty fast on per point operation (so particles, deformations...)... only....
I tried some rigging with ICE to control null (bones) behaviour for rigging some mechanical stuff (e.g. just reading and writing transform between objects) and it was much slower than old constrains/scripted operators.
The ICE kinematics require different setup and is hard to script.
I didn't found any easy way to get nodes that generates errors throught scripting. That makes building and fixing rigs only slow manual labor which doesn't pay off.
ICE is pretty fast on per point operation (so particles, deformations...)... only....
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Yeah, rigging in ICE == slow. You should only put parts of your rig into ICE when there is good reason and the need for it. Otherwise, you should keep your rig performance optimal with the standard rigging practices. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to make all the setups in ICE but it's too slow.
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pezetko & EricTRocks,
Thanks for the explanations.
Thanks for the explanations.
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Thank you Miquel , but if it possible to make a video for facial component and it's a nice to have facial component in the man template .
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New videos on TD Survival
New Eyelids Component
New Mouth & Jaw Components
New Eyelids Component
New Mouth & Jaw Components
$ifndef "Softimage"
set "Softimage" "true"
$endif
set "Softimage" "true"
$endif
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Love this! Thanks so much for leaving this free. =) Legend.
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Hi Miquel .
I see that the nose is missing from the facial component , is it not finished yet or is there another reason for that .
thanks in advanced .
I see that the nose is missing from the facial component , is it not finished yet or is there another reason for that .
thanks in advanced .
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any words on compability with old gear rigs? any problems with opening and working with scenes containing old gear and not gear_mc?
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I had to re-install to W8.1 and tried out SI 2015, but now I have an error: my PYTHONPATH and/or PATH Variables are working, but not all the GEAR modules are loading.
I get the following error:
For the majority of the major python scripts I'd love to use... only some of them.
Why would that be?
I get the following error:
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# ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "", line 34, in
# from gear.xsi import xsi, c, lm, XSIMath, XSIFactory
# ImportError: cannot import name lm
# - [line 34 in X:\XX\GEAR_mc-master\workgroup\Addons\gear\Application\Plugins\gear_selectionTools.py]
Why would that be?
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Figured it out, just re-installed python (and deleted the old python files).
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Hi, there.
I don't know if anyone has the same problem, but when I use this, sometimes arms and legs flip or pop.
Does anyone know how to prevent or fix this?
I don't know if anyone has the same problem, but when I use this, sometimes arms and legs flip or pop.
Does anyone know how to prevent or fix this?
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during animation and viewport playback or when rendering characters?
If it is 2nd one then I run into that couple times and only solution was to cache animation and render out cached and not rigged characters.
Viewport flipping don't remember seeing really...
If it is 2nd one then I run into that couple times and only solution was to cache animation and render out cached and not rigged characters.
Viewport flipping don't remember seeing really...
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Typically it is unwise to render live characters. You should always cache, then render.
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Sorry, what I mean is this, see the picture.
And yes, I do encountered sometimes when it renders, the legs flip. The way I solve it is just open the file and render it instead of send to render farm. Because I don't want to have a lot of files each time and since it stay good in viewport……but thank you.Who is online
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