Creating selection sets for controls

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We are going to create a few selection sets.

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So the animator can instead use these to select all the controls quickly and easily.

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Plus this will only have the nodes in that they are allowed to touch.

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Let's filter just the controls which all have

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underscore control on the end of their names.

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So now we can see all the controls. Let's select the main body controls.

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So ignore the tours for now

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and the fingers.

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OK? Now go to create

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sets, quick selection set

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and call it body controls.

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Now create another for the left toes

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and the right

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and now the fingers having different sets for each side.

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OK. Clear this.

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So now we have these lists, one for the body

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and one for the fingers and toes.

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We can select all those now

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and right click and go to select set members

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to quickly select all the controls.

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Let's add another set. Now

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call this all controls

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this. Now selects all the controls,

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but it misses the root controls here.

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So we need to include these,

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let's find them

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and simply use a middle mouse button to add them to the all controls list.

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Now we have the main controls selected, we can do something else.

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Go to control tag as controller.

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This adds a new node to each control.

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Let's take a look

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here it is.

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So these nodes help Maya in many ways.

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Firstly,

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they tell meer these are animation controllers which

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means that they will then use GP U acceleration

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so they can speed up your workflow and the playback,

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you can also use them to set up custom pick walking too.

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Plus under the visibility mode, drop down box,

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you will see that you can set each control so it's always visible

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or it inherits its parents' visibility.

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You can also set it to be invisible unless your mouse pointer is close to it

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like this,

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which is a great option for complex rigs with lots of controls.