@Tiles : you are missing my point about this tool making the design process out of reach to some people. My point is not about the value or lack of value of the output - as a matter of fact, the assumption made by some people that "there will always be a need for (insert human job title)" is in my opinion quite…
As far as I know, out of range curves don't work with biped's normal controllers but it will work on sub-animation controllers, which is probably useless for what you want, unless you want to do all of your animation on the sub-animation controllers... I wouldn't recommend that, I haven't ever tried it. But just incase you…
That sounds like a pretty good plan. The structure has a lot of unique qualities to it but I think you've found the right mix of techniques to use. There are probably 2-3 other ways to tackle it as well so I don't think there is one right answer. Besides most of those other ways include factors outside of this singular…