Rigging Tool:

The Rigging Tool was developed to standardize character rigs and provide quick iteration while developing and refining characters.

Layout Skin Mesh Settings:

• Button "Mark all Joints as "Keep"” will flag the joints as “keep” for use in Havok exporting.
• Button "Toggle LRA skinMesh" will toggle the Local Rotate Axis for joints on the referenced skin mesh skeleton.
• Button "Assign Labels to Skin Mesh Skeleton" will assign retargeting labels to the skin mesh skeleton, for use in animation retargeting.
• Button "Onion On for Sel Geo" will assign an onion skin attribute to the selected geometry, and givei t a value of 1.
• Button "Onion Off for Sel Geo" will assign an onion skin attribute to the selected geometry, and givei t a value of 0.

Layout Weapon:

• Button "Add "constrainTo" attribute to weapon" will add an attribute to the weapon that tells it what joint to constrain to on the character.
• TexField "constrain to" is used to define the L or R “_weapon_jntcntrl” that the weapon will be constrained to on the character.

Layout Rig Creation:

• Button "Toggle LRA rig" will toggle the Local Rotate Axis for joints on the rig skeleton.
• TextField "1. Namespace" will create the rig in the namespace entered.
• Button "Reference" will create a reference out of the skinMesh joints, in preparation for constraining it to the rig skeleton.
• Button "2. Create Rig Joints" will create rig joints on top of the referenced skin mesh joints, and orient them correctly.
• Button "3. Reorient Added Joints after Repositioning" allows the user to reorient joints after repositioning them.
• Button "4. Create Constraints and Utility Nodes" will constrain the skinMesh to the rig joints, and create a utility node that sets a 50% forearm rotation of the wrist.
• Button "5. Create Torso Controls" will create the iconic torso control for selecting all spine joints.
• OptionMenu "6. Create IK Legs Type" allows the creation of 3 different leg rigs – human, animal, and insect.
• OptionMenu "7. Create IK Arms Type" allows the creation of different arm rigs - human, wing, tentacle, etc.
• Button "8. Create Layers, Locks, and Retarget Labels" will finalize the rig setup by assigning meshes to layers, locking nodes, and setting retarget labels.

• Button "Create Character UI" will create the character UI and save it in the character's folder, for use with the "Determine Character" scriptJob.

• Button "9. What Perforce Version will this be?" will store the Perforce version in an attribute on the rig.
• Button "10. Create Resets/Config File" will create a text file recording the bindPose and initial controller positions.
• Button "Create Advanced Legs UI (Human Type) will create a reverse leg setup with additional controls.