MGtools 2.5: indispensable toolkit for Maya animators

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Posted By: mgland
Post Time: 12-27-2011 at 03:48 PM
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Hi~ I hope am not in a wrong board


MGtools 2.5 is a toolkit makes maya animator's life much much easier.

There are tons of useful features built-in. And none of them use custom nodes.



Check out this quick features demo, I promiss you may find something you have been looking for :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxwT5DqvpA



Here is the hotfile link of HD version:

http://hotfile.com/dl/138554688/0b4..._en_HD.zip.html



MainFeature list:

AnimRescue: Realtime backup your animation without slowing down foeground performance.

Get your animation back after any Maya/Windows/Computer accident,

(except hard disk accident, of course )

Supports: Maya 8.5~2012

MG-AutoSave: autosave your scene after a certain amount of time.

Almost the same as autosave in Maya 2011.

Support: Maya7.0~2012



Cam2Dviewer: navigates camera view in 2D manner. Pan/zoom/rotate 3D in 2D way.



GE-Plugin: A UI plugin in GraphEditor, does channel filtering, keyValue resetting/Alignning

Curve AutoSmoothing, making BD/Extreme pose,etc



Animation transferring:

MG-animationLibrary: build up your own animation library and reuse it.

CopyPastePro: copy & paste animation & pose between different mayas.

MG-SelectionManaer: transfer animation from one rig to another.



DB-Manager: Build up your own asset information database and reuse them really quick.

The database could be shared, this helps asset guys publish there works and layout artist/animatiors use them quickly.



Snapping tools: lots of types of snapping. Motion snapping helps to deal with issue such as feet sliding.



PathTracker: Draw motion path curve for you. The curve will be stay still and clear even the camera is in motion. No need to playback scenes to make a update.



Selection tools:

MG-selectionSet: build up your own selection set library and reuse it.

MG-Selection Manager: asssistant for quick selection. Transfer selection between rigs.

TypeSelector: select objects base on certain conditions as well as maya types.

Backup & restore selection with scene.



MG-ChannelBox: a channelBox specialized for animators. helps to make keyframe process easier and faster.



Constraint Tools:

Vertex Constraint & UV constraint: constrain object in Model surface.

AnimConstraint: provide extra hierarchy beside a constrant.

Transfer constraint between different scene.

...



MG-Shelf: a floating shelf collector.



Miscellaneous Switch:

viewSwitch: switch viewport config between 2-3 customizable configs.

smoothSwitch: managing polysmooth in your scene.

camSwitch: switch viewport camera. configable.

attribute switch: switch attributes without any popping. such as follow body attribute.



Folder & File shorcut: quicky access to some dir ,as well as programs, files.



Pivot Tool: animating object pivot in animation phase.



Keyframe tool: lots of tools dealing with keyframes.



Make it sticky: make object sticky in viewport ,such as facial panel.

Make sticky view: make a watcher viewport to some part of a charactor.



MGtimer: a timer , convertor in many framerates. it is a calcuator ,too.

MB-MA convertor: converts current maya scene between MB and MA format by force.

Super undo/redo tool: helps you undo or redo some operation really quick.

Reloator tool: you can relocate multiple objects with a sigle tempornary hierarchy.Result in keyframes.

Insert hierarchy tool: inserts unlimited numbers of hierarchies between current selection and its parent hierarchy.

Reference tool: be able to transfer reference information between different maya scenes. sometime it is more straight forward to manage reference via scene selection, by using this tools.

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If you are interested, visit here to know more

Hope you enjoy it !

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