Maya skinning tools

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An interface which holds many tools for skinning which Maya was lacking. 
a speed skinning video can be found here: https://youtu.be/cby7B0ATDDY

video explanation on the various tools can be found here: https://youtu.be/xyfhcdNJL9o

update v5 can be found here: https://gumroad.com/l/SkinTools_v5

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

# SkinWeights command and component editor
# Copyright (C) 2018 Trevor van Hoof

# Website: http://www.trevorius.com

#
# pyqt attribute sliders

# Copyright (C) 2018 Daniele Niero

# Website: http://danieleniero.com/

#

# neighbour finding algorythm
# Copyright (C) 2018 Jan Pijpers

# Website: http://www.janpijpers.com/

#

# skinningTools and UI

# Copyright (C) 2018 Perry Leijten

# Website: http://www.perryleijten.com

#

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for a copy of the GNU General

# Public License.

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#

# I N S T A L L A T I O N:# works in maya 2012+

# Copy the "skinningTool" folder with contents to your Maya scriptsdirectory:

# windows: MyDocuments\Maya\scripts\

# OSX: Users\Shared\Autodesk\Maya\scripts\

# linux: home\<your login name>\maya\scripts\

# use this text as a python script within Maya:

from skinningTool import SkinningToolsUI

SkinningToolsUI.startUI()

# this text can be entered from the script editor and can be made into a button

#

# note: PyQt and sip or pyside(2) and shiboken(2) libraries are necessary to run this file

# skinning plugins are created for

# Windows 2017 to 2020 (64 bit)

# OSX 2017 to 2020

# Linux (centOs) 2017 to 2020

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                                                -NOTICE-

* gumroad doesnt allow files over 25mb for free products so the tooltip Gifs now need to be downloaded seperately

* they can be found in this location: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1owj0sLVrNjK3uvBQqBcoIK2Ty-XyUPBx/view?usp=sharing

* please unzip the file and overwrite the tooltips folder in the skinningtools directory


                                                 -CHANGELOG-

4.0.13

- added plugins for linux(centOs)
4.0.12
- fixed maya 2020 bug with skinweights markingmenu

4.0.11

- freeze skinned joints update;

* better way to deal with transforms in skeleton stack

* removes redundant transforms

* fixes some issues with scalevalues that are not exactly 1 (+/- epsilon values)

- better error report with traceback in undo decorator

4.0.10

- freeze skinned joints now has the option to cleanly set joint scales to (1,1,1) and tries to remove transform nodes in between

4.0.9

- build osx plugin for maya 2020

4.0.8
- build windows plugin for maya 2020 (could not get it to work for mac)
- removed beta node + tab

4.0.7

fixed ascii error osx

4.0.6 

* build windows and mac osx plugins for maya 2019

4.0.5

* updated weightmanager, fixed minor mistake in importing by index check

* update on smoothbrush to maintain maximum influences ( based on maxInfluences maintainMaxInfluences attributes on current skincluster )

* set max influences button now also sets these attributes on the skinCluster

4.0.4

* updated documentation

* turned help button into menu

* more elaborate tooltips which show video on certain buttons

* japanese version of documentation

4.0.3

* added new smoothing algorithm + visualisation in bezier graph

* average function now supports edge selection

* fixed storing and unloading weights from weights manager

* widget now dockable in all locations conform maya 2017+ dock functionality

* update plugin load code for mac, sys.executable did not get correct values

* using adjusted version of tech-artist.org stylesheet to keep coherent styles between maya versions

4.0.2

* added japanese ui language (documentation will follow shortly)

* changed node connection edditor for missing bones to listview

* some changes in loading pyside2 for users that have pyqt4 installed while using maya 2017+

* overall performances updated on some tools

* saving and loading skinweights updated to use xml

* made sure plugins now work with maya 2018

4.0.1

* added lattice and curve support to some functions in first tab (will expand support to other tabs and features over time)

* removed need for button to force marking menu on or off, simplified eventfilter and added .2f and .3f submenus

* overhaul on skinweights manager tab to extend its use for within pipelines (some function still slow; looking into this)

* added option to generate mesh from skeleton so it can be visualised in ZBrush for example.

* maya windows now automatically have presets that work best with the tool, and will open label UI when needed for tool

* legacy maya viewport now has opengl screen draw function in smooth skin editor to show which vertex is manipulated (looking into extending this to OpenGL Core)

* fixed bug in smoothbrush undo

* beta tab removed temporarily as plugin code is refactored but python still in progress

* added joint remapper to functions when influence lists do not match

* added few new commands

* help folder contains cheat sheet for all useable commands and arguments

4.0.0

* converted plugin pipeline to Cmake, plugins for OSX versions built ( Maya 2016 and 2017)

* improved most commands with undo stack and removed bugs that caused Maya to freeze and in some places to take too much RAM

* some new commands added

* extra menu added in top to quickly move model files between scenes

* given possibility to unlock beta tab for experimentation of new tools, so please send your feedback! (currently only works in windows maya 2016+)

* create proxymesh has some extra functions, but noticed some issues with special cases so will get a big overhaul in next update

3.9.1:

* compiled plugins for Maya 2017

* now supports pyside2

* added extra options to create proxy mesh

3.9:

* added extra option to convert selected components to a joint with selection as influence (also able to use soft distance)

* added checkbox to enable/disable the Marking Menu as it was sometimes very intrucive with the middle mouse move function

known issues:

* undo failing to work with the smooth brush and smooth button

3.8:

* added extra option to the copy pose and copy skin, right click the button to switch between smooth or 1 to 1 copy

* added extra option to the "+ neightbors", right click allows to switch between automatically growing the selection or not

* fixed missing function to transfer uvs from a clean mesh to a skinned mesh that is identical

3.7:

* added extra option to the average button, right click the button to switch between distance or percentage averaging

3.6:

* fixed function to reset joints in pose for maya 2016+

* added function that allows user to force influences on selected components (prevents minor spikes)

notes:

* re-arranged some ui elements

3.5:

* added function to combine skinned mesh that works also in versions prior to maya 2015 ( uses Maya command in 2015+ )

* added function that seperates a skinned mesh based on poly shells and keeps skinning information (flushes undo stack to keep ram low)

* added function to extract components as new geometry with skinning information

* added function that allows user to copy UV's from nonskinned mesh to skinned mesh

* added function that freezes the mesh and clears history but keeps skinning information

3.4:

* fixed minor problem in undochain for neighbours and neighbours +

* fixed undochain problems of not closing propperly and thus using more ram

* fixed error in vertex weight matcher

* removed stack message display on smooth and smooth brush

3.3:

* added function so store a single vertex weight influence and load that on components of a different object with the same joint influences

* fixed issue in set maximum influecnes; the weight values where not applied propperly which resulted in the command not working

3.2:

* fixed bug in which remove influences was not called after pressing button

3.1:

*updated average: shortest edge path tries to find the edgeloop first before switching to edge length

*updated smooth skin editor: locking a value will now be kept locked at that value, no overshoot possible when sliders combined go over normal value

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