Hello has anyone ever released a 2.5D script? I have been looking everywhere and cannot I find anything.. I see this guy has been working on one but he hasn't been active for a while... Has he released his? Is anyone working on one? Or did someone else release something like this as well? I find this really neat and would pay for this feature.
You can do all of this with smart bones and bone targeting. A forum member( dueyftw ) made a video showing this concept in action:
What he basically did was use two bones to create the X and Y axis of a coordinate plane. He then created a control bone that the other bones targeted. The control bone allows him to control smart bone actions attached to the X,Y axis bones in such a way that he can perform 2.5D motion.
I created a file to test this system out. It's very simple, but does a good job showing how to setup the rig. If you plan to make a really advanced version, use switch layers.
LINK TO FILE EXAMPLE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwzk- ... authuser=0
Using this system, each master control bone can control up to 8 actions (2 actions per bone).
X-MOTION: 2 ACTIONS
Y-MOTION: 2 ACTIONS
ROTATION: 2 ACTIONS
SCALE: 2 ACTIONS
The "Dragon Matrix" videos that you showed uses a similar concept. You can accomplish everything they did using duey's method if you just take time to setup your rigs and use switch layers.