Programming and animation

MotionBuilder UI, centered region

Tip, on how to centered a region. Not so long time ago I thought about this question and wish to share.
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MoBu Menu manager

The plug-in is designed to rename and customize Open Reality main menu. Supplement the menu item you can call Python scripts.

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Free 2-day MotionBuilder SDK Training in San Francisco

The Autodesk Developer Network is offering a free 2-day MotionBuilder SDK training at Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco on March 9 and 10, 2010. This is a rare opportunity to work in a small class room environment with very knowledgeable instructors on the Media & Entertainment product of your choosing. The unique opportunity allows you to dive into the inner workings of the software, and come out with a strong fundamental knowledge of their architecture to see and understand how you can utilize and benefit from the API’s/SDK’s of these powerful software’s. For more details, go to the following links:

MotionBuilder SDK Training Description and Agenda

Register here for MotionBuilder SDK

Markers renamer script by the UIBuilder

Utility to rename a set of markers. Was used in the production for the standardization of naming a set of markers of diverse sources mocap data. In particular, if the animation shot with the same person, it is not necessary for each of them to do different MoBu Actor, it is enough to observe the unity of naming markers and can be combined animation with the scene had once trained actor.

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MoBu script: Pose shots

Another small but useful utility for five minutes using the UI Builder. The point is to create every N frames pose for a character.

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AREA: Exposing functions to the Python

The portal Autodesk AREA branch will be interesting to discuss how to export a C ++ function for a MoBu python.

User Petr Man offers a good solution to this, so that anyone having this kind of need to necessarily look at

expose function thread

UIBuilder source code is now avaliable!

A high loading state of the last few days led me to believe that a useful tool would be good to lay eyes on the public with the source code freely available.
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MoBu Snippets: Parent\Child constraint

How to: Change the width for the first column in the table

Once questioned, how to change the width for the first column in the table component of the FBSpread class. It appears that it’s need to identify by the column index -1, like this:

<spread>.GetColumn(-1).Width = <value>

Renamer tool

Python tool for advance renaming objects in MotionBuilder. Script is developed under UIBuilder 0.6.5.

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