Applying rotate order to the remaining joints

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So now we have a rotate order which works better than XYZ.

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We need to apply it to the rest of the skeleton.

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Now, you could go through each joint and set the rotate order manually.

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But I have a much quicker way of doing it.

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I'll just open the script editor

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if I move these over

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and I'll just change the rotate order attribute

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and then change it back.

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What you can see now is that Maya has given us the code. We need to do this using mel.

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The four represents the number of the item in the drop down box, 01234.

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They always start with zero, not one.

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If I copied this now and ran it,

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it would set the rotate order for me on the lower arm joint.

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So we need to turn this into something which will work on every joint in the skeleton,

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which is where this little piece of mel script comes in.

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Let's select the root joint, which is a first in the hierarchy.

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First, we need to find a list of all this joint Children.

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We can do this using the list relatives, command

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the type flag.

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With the minus next to it tells mayor we just want to look for joints.

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The minus ad flag will search through all descendants.

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So everything in the hierarchy.

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If I select just that and run it,

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we get a list of all the joints.

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What we can do is store that list in a variable

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like this one which we call joint list.

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It can be any name you like. It's just something to store that list.

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Now we have a list of the joints stored.

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We can use a four loop to go through each joint in the list. In turn.

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So for joints in joint list,

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joints will represent each item in the list.

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We can then run the code to change the rotate order.

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But we need to replace the name of the joint with the current joint in the list

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or it's just gonna be repeatedly updating that one joint.

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So what we can do is use the joint variable

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and add the attribute to the end

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and then set it to four, which is YXZ.

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If I select that now and run it, it will update all the joints in the hierarchy.