Pipeline Tools (Python): 1. Scene Assembly Tool : I was looking for a way to keep all of my rigs organized, and couldn’t find anything to fit my needs, so I created this tool to keep rigs and other assets organized. It will import/reference your selection and copy all textures to the project folder and make them a relative path. …
Walking ChatGPT through the Ball Bounce Assignment
“Explore the interactive ‘JD Ball Bounce’ project, where Maya’s Python API and OpenAI’s ChatGPT join forces to create a user-friendly bouncing ball animation script, highlighting the power of AI in the 3D animation world.” In this unique project, I leveraged the powerful combination of Autodesk Maya’s Python API and OpenAI’s language model, ChatGPT, to create a Python script that generates …
JD Rig Select (Python)
What does the script do? The script provides a user interface in Autodesk Maya for selecting, importing, and referencing rig files. The UI organizes these files into three categories (or tabs): Rigs, Props, and Environments. The user can browse and search for rig files within a selected directory and import them into the current Maya project, or reference them. How …