cgmMM – TD

This is the TD marking menu. It’s designed as a replacement to our old tdTools – both to add features as well as make things more intuitive and at a single button press. If it gets too unwieldy, it may be split to multiple modes.

Quick Press Function

None currently

Compass

• Snap (N) —  SHARED. See cgmMarkingMenu
• Utils (NW)
  • Group (NW)
    • Just Group — Creates group for obj and names it
    • Group Me — Groups selected with zero group and parents to world
    • In Place — Groups selected with zero group and maintains parent
• Create (NE) —
  • Transform Here — Creates a tranforms matching selected objects transforms
  • Locators –
    • Selected — creates an updatable locator based off of selection. Supports most components.
    • Mid Point — updatable midpoint loc of selected targets
    • Closest Point — Creates updatable loc the updates to the closest point on the surface of targets to the first object in selection
    • Closest Target — Creates updatable loc the updates to the closest target to the first object in selection
    • RayCast — Just another place to access this
    • World Center — self explanatory
  • Curve — Create a curve with the selected objects or components defining the cvs
• Match (W) — Copying/matching stuff from one object to others
  • Transform – WIP
  • Shapes – Snaps a duplicate of selected objects to last and then shapeParents those in place to the last object
  • Orienation — Match the orienation of transforms. Not working properly with joints yet
  • Attrs – WIP
  • Pivot
    • rp — Copy the rotate pivot
    • sp
  • Orienation – WIP
• Ray (E) — Object creation/duplication with shooting rays at geo shapes. See the root marking menu doc for breakdown of options and concepts. See cgmMarkingMenu for shared options.
  • Cast
    • locators (N) — Locator is created an updated until left button is released at which point that locator will stay put.
    • joint (NE) — Joint…..
    • jointChain (E) — Drop function. The joint chain will be created from the clicked locators
    • curve (SE) — Drop function. The curve will be created connecting the clicked locators.
    • follicle (S) — Drop function. Follicles created at clicked locators
    • vector (SW) — Two linear curves are created where possible. One from the cast point to each hit. The second curve is along the hit geo’s normal. This is mainly a useful visualization tool but users may well find other uses for it.
    • duplicate (W) — Each click, any selected objects will be duplicated and ‘cast’ following all options.
    • data (NW) — Hit data is only logged on release of the left button.
  • Drag — all of the same options as cast creation except in drag mode
• Reset (S) – SHARED. See cgmMarkingMenu

Lower Section

Utilities

• Select — Contextually pickable method to select given objects based on selection
  • See context in options for more of a breakdown. Easiest to play with to see how it works
• Distance — Requires at least two selected objects to build. First object selected is source. Curves, mesh and surfaces are suported. If target objects have multiple shapes, all shapes are checked.
  • Near
    • Object
    • Shape
    • Surface Point — Closest point on selected objects
    • Surface Loc — Closest point loc’d
    • Surface Nodes — Wired nodes per shape and result loc
  • Far
    • Object
    • Shape
• Joints
  • Axis(contextual) – show, hide
  • cometJO — Michael Comet’s fantastic joint orient tool
• SDK
  • seShapeTaper — Out buddy Scott Englerts shape taper which we find indespensible when doing sdk joint facial setups.
• Shapes
  • ShapeParent — Maya’s shapeParent in place doesn’t work. This one does (for the most part)
  • Combine — Combine selected shapes to the last. Deletes the old transforms.
  • Add — Add shapes to the last…same as combine???
  • Extract — Creates a copy of a specific given shape
  • Replace — Delete existing shapes on a transform and replace it with the other selected ones.
  • Color — Colors are called by names we gave them to make it useful than integers.
    • Index — Color by display override method using maya color indices
    • RBG — In Maya 2016, RGB override method was introduced. This uses that method
• Curve
  • Describe – Generates python commands for given curve shapes replication
  • Mirror – WIP
• Mesh
  • cgmMeshtools
  • abSymMesh — Great tool for working with blendshapes
• Skin
  • abWeightLifter
• cgmLegacy — tools that need to be updated
  • Locinator
  • attrTools
  • tdTools

Options

• Context — What context functions happen based on selection
  • selection
  • below
  • hierarchy
  • scene