All-in-one bone tool *Updated september 2010*

[ponysmasher]

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http://www.dauid.com/tools/scripts/ds_m ... _bones.zip

Some more features, more stable. Still doesn't work on frame 0.

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Just started writing LUA scripts today and man it's fun!

My first ever tool is a combinated manipulate, rotate, translate and scale bones tool with some extras.



It works great except for two things.

1. Scale bone keyframes don't always show up, but I'll probably figure this out.

2. I can't get it to behave like the standard manipulate bone tool on frame 0. I can't move bones and they stay offset.
I tried just making a copy of the standard manipulate bones tool and did some renaming but the copy didn't work either.

Is there some rule that there can only be one tool that acts like manipulate bones on frame 0?

[heyvern]

If you make copies of scripts make sure you change the variables that might be "hanging around". Sometimes a tool will create global variables that contain information for that tool However that information is available to other tools. Sometimes you can get conflicts.

The key is to make sure that the main name of the script is changed in the code.

For example

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LM_ManipulateBones = {}

If you make a copy make sure you change that table variable. DO a global search for: "LM_ManipulateBones" and change it to your own variable or tool name:

for me it would be:

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HV_ManipulateBones

I use my initials.

Another issue is the utilities script and OTHER tools. For example many tools do the same thing as other tools but they do not have that code in them. They just reference the other tools functions or they all reference a function in the utilities script that returns a value.

If you post your code here I could probably tell you quickly what's wrong.

-vern

[ponysmasher]

Thanks, you can have a look at it here: http://dauid.com/stuff/ds_manipulate_bones.lua

Please keep in mind though that i just started learning scripting so it's not going to be pretty....

There's alot to be cleaned up/fixed.

[ponysmasher]

I had forgot I even uploaded this script to this site until I saw it listed in the "Scripts all in one Post" thread, but here is the finished version that I've been using: http://www.dauid.com/tools/scripts/ds_m ... _bones.zip

[Onionskin]

Hi Ponysmasher,
have you ever written script for all-in-one layer tool, or I mixed something?

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi Ponysmasher,
have you ever written script for all-in-one layer tool, or I mixed something?

Check here
viewtopic.php?t=16862

[Onionskin]

Thanks Selgin,
Ramons tool is one of my favorite but this is not what I meant. I thought that Ponysmasher was made a tool for layer translation/rotation/scale. Perhaps I mixed with Mike Kelli's SwissArmyKnife tool, but somehow I think that Ponismasher made such a tool, like manipulate bones, but for layers. Maybe I am wrong, I don't know, please somebody tell me.

I asked for that because I love that manipulate bone tool, so I delete default tools bone translate, rotate and scale. I don't need them in my tools window no more. Actually I didn't delete them, just remove them from tools folder to utility folder, because ds_manipulate_bones wont work if default tools are just deleted. I wanted to do same thing with layer translate, rotate and scale, but like I sad, I don't know is such tool exist.

[Onionskin]

go to (Modify-->break apart) this will make the piece look like it's covered in a bunch or dots

where is that Modify option?

[jahnocli]

go to (Modify-->break apart) this will make the piece look like it's covered in a bunch or dots

where is that Modify option?

rajlostmarble is a spammer -- I wouldn't give his 'advice' any credence.

[Onionskin]

Thanks Jahnocli, I will keep that in my mind, I notice that his advice does not make sense

[Animark]

Hello,

I've used this manipulate_bones tool for some hours and started to love it. But I got some problems and it's caused maybe in a bug or in something I am doing wrong.

I am animating three characters on a timeline with a length of 900 frames. When I use the 2 key all functions I get often some more unwanted keyframes about 100 frames away on the timeline. For example, I am working around frame 100 I get some more keys around 250.

Maybe this helps to improve the script.

Anyway I want to use something similar to the "Key All" all function. Is there a way to do that, maybe another script/tool? (I will post this request in a special topic in the "How Do I" section, so it would be nice to get some hints for alternatives there.)

[Animark]

Hi again,

I've tested the keyframing also with another tool (Key Skeleton) and got the same problems, so I can say, it is a bug somewhere, but not in this All-in-one bone tool.

strange thing: when I am animating and press a "key all bones" function, I get all the keys, but excactly 136 frames away.

[Víctor Paredes]

strange thing: when I am animating and press a "key all bones" function, I get all the keys, but excactly 136 frames away.

That 136 frames offset maybe could be because you have moved the layer 136 frames on the sequencer. Probably this could be easy to repair it in the script. Anyway, it's just a theory.

[Animark]

Yes, that is the problem. I imported my characters from time to time i needed them and didn't recognised, that they are started at another position in the sequenzer then 1. I never used the sequenzer before. So, I moved my animations to frame one in the sequenzer and the keyframes to their origin position, and now, both tools are working fine.

Selgin, you helped me a lot today. Thanks!

[HardikLakhalani]

It manipulate bone without any special key, But while holding CTRL / ALT / SHIFT, It show this: and nothing happens:

LUA Console Box:
attempt to index global 'LM_RotateBone' (a nil value)
attempt to index global 'LM_TranslateBone' (a nil value)
attempt to index global 'LM_ScaleBone' (a nil value)

I am using Anime Studio Pro 10.0 x64