Sorry if it's a silly question, but where do we find this? Is it now built in to your Graph Editor tool or is it something separate?

Cheers,
Brian

So, DPT is launched from Graph Editor Redux.  It's grouped wth the buttons where you launch the Trax editor or Dope sheet.

Yes, getting the full PyQt4 installed is a bit of a pain.  It can be confusing.  I've just added a PDF that explains where to get the files and how to install it to the right version of Maya.  Hopefully this will be helpful if you've had difficulties in the past.  Of course I'm biased, but I think it is worth the extra effort.

I hope to put together some video tutorials shortly on how to use this.  Basically, you select the controllers in Maya that you have saved keyframes on and that you want to time.  Press "Get Poses" and DPT will playblast a frame for each keyframe and put thumbnails in the XSheet.  Drag and drop the thumbnails to change the timing.  Left-click moves the thumbnail.  Right-click copies it.  Use Ctrl to multi-select thumbnails.  Right-click will pop up a menu where you can do many operations - copy, cut, paste, ripple cut, ripple paste, add frames, and change timing to ones, twos, threes and fours.  When done, click "Send Timing" and your Maya scene will update to the timing and the curves will have stepped tangents.  The playback controls include a scrubbing slider and an interactive way to change fps, play forward, play reverse.  Another cool thing is that while the sequence is playing you can modify the timing of the XSheet and see the edits live.

Last edited by cgjedi (11-17-2011 4:55 am)

What you included looks like just a warning (which I don't know why) and not an actual error.  Have you tried to bring up the Graph Editor?  For 2012 you launch Redux by choosing between Suite, Classic and Redux in the "View/Toolbar Mode" menu

Thanks, I realized that and got GER loaded up, but pressing the button for the pose test tool throws up the following error

# Error: IOError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\bin\python26.zip\xml\etree\ElementTree.py line 579: 2 #

I appreciate any advice.

To be completely honest, what coolbird22 said resonates with me too.. I'm quite happy with the standard GE too and am mainly just interested in checking out the pose timing tool. Is there a command that can launch it from the standard UI ?

Cheers,
Brian

Horganovski wrote:

Thanks, I realized that and got GER loaded up, but pressing the button for the pose test tool throws up the following error

Code:

# Error: IOError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\bin\python26.zip\xml\etree\ElementTree.py line 579: 2 #

I appreciate any advice.

That's a head scratcher.  I don't have an answer right now for that.

Could you give more info as to OS and what link you used to get PyQt4?

Last edited by cgjedi (11-17-2011 4:21 pm)

cgjedi wrote:

Could you give more info as to OS and what link you used to get PyQt4?

Sure, I used the PyQt 4.7.3 Qt x64 Maya.zip link on the http://nathanhorne.com/?p=204 page.
I'm running Maya 2012 (SAP) on Win 7 64 bit.

Cheers,
Brian

Thanks, I uninstalled everything and reinstalled that version, but still get the same error when I press the button to open Pose Test.

Cheers,
Brian

Got the same/similar error as above. A little more detailed though.

# Error: 2
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#   File "<maya console>", line 1, in <module>
#   File "C:/MyData/Programming/My_3D/MayaScripts/GER/GER_2012/scripts\rb_GraphEditorReduxGUI.py", line 3141, in ger_DigitalPoseTestCB
#   File "C:/MyData/Programming/My_3D/MayaScripts/GER/GER_2012/scripts\rb_DPT.py", line 114, in <module>
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\__init__.py", line 200, in loadUiType
#     winfo = compiler.UICompiler().compileUi(uifile, code_string, from_imports)
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\Compiler\compiler.py", line 119, in compileUi
#     w = self.parse(input_stream)
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\uiparser.py", line 871, in parse
#     document = parse(filename)
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\bin\python26.zip\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 862, in parse
#     tree.parse(source, parser)
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2012\bin\python26.zip\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 579, in parse
#     source = open(source, "rb")
# IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:/MyData/Programming/My_3D/MayaScripts/GER/GER_2012/scripts\\../ui/dptMainWindow.ui' #

could it be that you left a couple hardcoded file locations in there by accident?

Also just on a usability front, not a huge fan of the default icons. Find some of them hard to read compared to the stock icons but atleast they're all in the folder so we're free to create our own.

Hey,
yup it works great now.
Quick question: does the DPT always default to stepped keys? Just a suggestion, but might be worth adding the ability to respect keyframe type.

Also I don't know if it's just on my end, but the dptMainWindow.ui is missing all the icons for playback. I opened it up in Qt Creator to take a look, and none of the icons are set except for the play button(which doesn't show up in Maya for some reason). I tried relinking all the images but Maya still doesn't want to show them

And just for convenience sake, how do you keep the plugin as an autoload? It likes to dissapear for every new session

Thanks! You going to the VES thing on saturday?

Last edited by dgovil (11-18-2011 7:01 am)

Same for me too, it's loading now and working as far as I can tell, but no icons are showing up for the transport buttons.

Cheers,
Brian

Last edited by Horganovski (11-18-2011 3:17 pm)

Thank you, appreciate the work you're putting in here, this looks like a really handy tool.

One minor thing I notice when trying it out, it's quite easy (for me anyway!) to drag a pose on top of another one by accident and then Undo doesn't seem to correct that, so it's possible to loose poses this way.

Cheers,
Brian

Last edited by Horganovski (11-18-2011 4:54 pm)

Very cool, the icons are working now : )

A few suggestions I'd have after a very brief look at it (apart from Undo as mentioned above).

1 - It's a little messy dropping the contents of the GER folder into the plugins folder IMO, instead of dropping new folders called plugins, docs, scripts etc I'd much rather drop the entire GER folder in with maybe just the main plugin file outside that if needed. I can imagine going to install another plugin in a couple of months and wondering what all these extra folders in the plugin folder are for.

2 - It's not immediately obvious to me how best to use the speed slider, how do we know when it's playing at the default speed/same speed as the Maya project? Maybe a text field with the FPS in it might help clarify things. I don't find the slider that easy to use for changing the speed right now as the range seems much too big for most practical purposes. I might play something at half speed or a little faster but never beyond double speed really.

3 - I'd like previous pose/next pose buttons more than the increase/decrease speed buttons. I think they would be generally more useful for timing a sequence. Or maybe it could just detect the same hotkeys as the standard timeline and use the < and > keys for prev/next keys.

4 - I'd like a button that would insert a frame (and move all frames after that down by a frame, like ripple editing) on what ever frame is currently selected. I think that might be quicker for quick timing tweaks than right clicking and choosing how many frames to add. Pretty much like the insert frame range option but just defaulting to one frame so that you could quickly tap the button to add them in rather than right clicking.

Hope that's useful and thanks again for your work on this.

Cheers,
Brian

Last edited by Horganovski (11-19-2011 5:03 pm)