mirror joint orientation maya

achillesian

Is there a button for this in maya? Am i just missing it? Googling has been fruitless so far on how to do this.

Besides, well this way...
(copying and pasting all the rotation info sigh)

If its not clear already, what i want to be able to do is mirror across the x the bone locations and essentially flip the characters current pose.

sama.van

I'm not sut but you could try the Bonus Tools, there are some UI helping to create symetrical animations or things in this way....

ivars

Don't know if there's some mirror function, might exist some script for it, but at least there's duplicate values (select two objects, select attributes in channelbox, right click and choose duplicate values) to copy attributes between two objects.

Firebert

is there a quick and dirty way to accurately mirror over joint gestural positions for things like run/walk cycles in one fail swoop when setting up a rig... is that what you're asking?

MoP

Firebert: Yes, I believe that's the question.
For example, Character Studio's "Biped" in 3ds Max allows "copy pose" and "paste opposite" to mirror any given pose. Maya seems conspicuously lacking in this regard, although I have to admit I've never actively looked for this function, so it may exist.

SUNCHIRP

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/home

do a search for 'flip' or 'mirror' pose or something, there's tons of scripts with that functionality.

MoP

Ah, good to know there's scripts available for it... thanks Steve

Although it begs the question... if it's so easy to script, why haven't Autodesk ever added it by default? It's pretty much a necessity for hand-keyed cycles, I thought...

achillesian

scripts more scripts, you can do anything with scripts but autodesk can't do anything on its own. Did 2010 even add ANYTHING? Perfect file compatibility with older versions of maya makes me question whether these things are actually being updated at all.