LogInHere's a useful new tool for 3D artists.
'Groom My Guides Tool V1.0' from UnPLUG Tools has recently released Groom My Guides Tool V1.0, a toolkit for Maya that helps artists deal with grooming and guides creation tasks using procedural techniques.
Check out some videos above and below to learn how it works. The developer states that the tool can help artists save hours of work.
Guides:
- Extract Multi-Edge Guides.
- Extract Edge-Curves from Poly Tubes.
- Extract Multi-EdgeLoop Curves.
- Create & Fill Volume Guides on input Nurbs tubes.
- Create Steppy Guides on input Nurbs curves.
- Create Twisted guide curves on Nurbs tubes.
- Create Curly guide-curves on input guide-curves.
Modify Guides:
- Soft-Snap guide-curves based on input falloff distance.
- Rebuild guide-curves based on input unit value.
- Randomize guide lengths based on input % value.
- Snap whole guides onto Scalp mesh, with offset control.
- Remove Penetrations on guide CVs based on the input offset value.
- Select random elements from input elements based on input percentage value.
- Grow guide CV selections.
- Trim scalp-penetrated guide-curves from roots.
- Move guide-curves Pivots to their roots.
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