There is people ask if we can have tracer effect like GhostTrials plugin in 3Ds Max, the awser is YES! We can just use Animation Sweep function in Maya and got result like here.
Here are steps:
Tag: maya
everything about Autodesk Maya
Skin Magic
Skin Magic is a Maya script that mainly focus on process mesh skin weight
Mean Feature:
Assign vertex skin weight with multiple selection mode
Transfer skin weight between vertex and meshes
Re-Skin: re-organize skin weight base on pick bones
Skin Warp: copy weights from closest vertexs
Spring Magic
Spring Magic for Maya is a script tool that can create bone chain follow through animation.
Features:
Create waving, twisting, flexibility effect on bone chain
Create loop animation
Collision supporting
Work with existed animation controller
Wind effect
SkinTools Tutorials
Spring Magic 3.1 New Features
SkinTools Download
SkinTools is a scripts for Autodesk Maya, which can greatly improve the working pipeline for 3D animator.
Latest Version: 3.0
Important: this script had seperated into Skin Magic and Spring Magic, I’ll not keep mantain SkinTools anymore. Plz download those scripts as replacement.
Download skinTools ( Removed )