Universal Deformer Weight Tool (Early Release)

Over the last few months I have been working on a tool that give you more options on how to manipulate deformer weights and blendShape deltas.

There are a few features that I still want to implement, but it is still very useful in it's current form, and so I'm going to release the current version of it, so that I can begin getting some feedback on it as I finish up the remaining features.

You can get the tool here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-A9rckK7jKuYckcTkrnZYDRAAghSqt_A

You just need to put the two scripts into your Maya scripts folder, and then run the following script

import deformer_utils_ui deformer_utils_ui.deformer_ui().show()

For those of you that are curious here is a list of the features that I still want to implement into the UI, most of these features are available through the utility scripts already.

• Handle sculpt deformer weights

• Improve how the ui handles the UI queue

• Add an option to the ui filter out ngSkin influences with zero weights

• Provide the ui functionality to split weights/deltas onto multiple deformers/deltas

• Add "closest point on surface" as a matching option

• Add "UV space" as a matching option

• Add the ui functionality to extract deltas (and perform other related functions)

• Provide ui functions to convert wire, softMod, and softSelect deformations to single weights

• Extend the utilities to work with ngSkin weights.

• Look into methods of displaying weights for nurbs curves and nurbs surfaces.

• Macro functions.

• Make the UI a bit cleaner