Contour Rig Tools 1.0 User Manual

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
  • IndieGoGo contributors
• Foreword
• Installation
  • Updates
  • Supported Maya versions
  • Installing PyMel for in Maya 2022 and later
  • Running the installer under Windows
  • Running the installer under macOS
  • Installing Contour Rig Tools using the installer
  • Installing Contour Rig Tools manually under Windows
  • Installing Contour Rig Tools manually under macOS
  • Installing Contour Rig Tools manually under Linux
• Licensing
  • The Licensing Dialog
  • Internet Connectivity and Rig Tools Licensing
  • Using Animation-Only Mode
  • Activating a Contour Rig Tools Trial
  • Using a Node-Locked License
  • Using a Floating License
• Getting Started with a Simple Contour Rig
  • Putting down joints and bones
  • Binding The Mesh
  • Control Rigging
• Joints and Bones
  • Introduction to Rig Tools Joint Chains
  • Joint Sockets and Chains
  • Separate Joints and Bones
  • Joint Chain Radius
  • Using the Rig Tools Joint Tool
  • Modifying Joint Chains
  • Adding and Deleting Joints and Bones
  • Bone CVs
  • Override Rotation and Stretch
  • Bone Display and Selectability
• Splines and Deformation
  • Introduction to splines and deformation
  • Binding meshes to a Rig Tools spline
  • Unbinding Meshes
  • Rebind Mode
  • Joint Radius
  • Twist and Inherit Twist
  • Bulge
  • Spline-Wide Deformation Settings
  • Using rigid influences
  • Painting weights on the Rig Tools deformer
  • Using the Rig Tools Component editor
  • Copying and Mirroring weights
  • Pruning weights
  • About Splines and Deform Fields
  • Scaling an entire Rig Tools spline
  • Driving Rig Tools Splines With Conventional Transforms
• Constraints
  • Rig Tools Constraint
  • Spline Constraint
  • Removing Constraints
• Control Rigging
  • Rig Tools Joints as Controls
  • Aim Handles
  • IK Systems
  • Rig Tools Orient
  • Arbitrary control rigging
• Using Rig Tools With Other Deformers
  • Deformation order considerations
  • Blend Shapes
  • Layered skin clusters
  • Pose Interpolators
  • Delta Mush Deformation
• Techniques
  • Overshoot
  • Simple muscles
  • “Broken” or “free” rigging
  • Transform-only deformation
• The Pre-deprecated API
  • What Do You Mean, Pre-Deprecated?
  • General Considerations
  • Creating, Deleting, and Duplicating Contour Joint Chains
  • Creating Contour Constraints
  • Creating and Deleting Contour IK Systems
  • Creating and Deleting Aim Handles
  • Creating and Deleting Orients
  • Binding, Rebinding, and Unbinding
  • Contour Deformer Weights
• Caveats
  • Maya 2023.0 and 2023.1
  • Overrides and constraints
  • Issues Related to Cached Playback
• Optimizing Performance
  • Removing and restoring Rig Tools shapes
  • Putting Rig Tools deformation at the bottom of the deformation stack
  • Reducing the density of the deform field