This is a simple addon that rearranges some of the animation related UI elements in Blender for more efficient workflow. It also comes with a few new tools to help out animators.
The addon provides 2 new copy/paste tools:
This allows you to copy and paste the absolute position and rotation of objects and bones in world space. You can copy between objects and bones, and if you have autokey enabled, will set a key as well. This is handy when switching on and off constraints to ensure that your object or bone maintains its position.
This copies and pastes the relative transform of the active bone to another selected bone, and pastes it back again. At present it only works between 2 bones, but already this is very useful for when you want to quickly have one bone follow another without setting up a constraint.
For ease of use, right click on these buttons and add them to your Quick Favorites for easy access so that you don't have to keep going back to the panel to use them.
Please note: Unlike the Copy paste world transforms addon that comes with Blender, the above operators work with bones and objects that have the ChildOf constraint. The limitiation is that it doesn't work when the influence is something other than 0 or 1.
This pastes the relative transform across the whole timeline or preview range and bakes the resulting animation onto the active bone. This effectively removes the need for childOf constraints for certain animation tasks.
This panel gathers various settings from around Blender's UI into one panel for convenience.
The keying section collects all the keying related settings from Blender's timeline and user prefs for easy access. It has the autokey button, keying set selection, default new key options and new keying behaviours.
The playback section contains the sync mode selector and the start and end frame for the scene or preview range.
This is where you can mute the audio and turn scrubbing on and off.
For now this section only contains simplify, but there are plans to add more settings to this section to optimise viewport performance.
This panel reorganises the UI for the Bone Selection Sets addon that comes with Blender. It is only displayed when the active object is an armature in pose mode. In order to use it, you have to enable the official Bone Selection Sets addon. If the addon is not enabled, a button is displayed so that you can enabled it without having to go to user preferences. In addition to making use of the official selection sets addon, thus maintaining compatibility, it also changes some of the behaviour.
At the top of the panel are 3 buttons that let you copy, paste or clear all the selection sets.
By clicking the "New" button you create a new selection set, which you immediately name, and your current selection is assigned to it.
The behaviour of selecting a set has behaves more like selection in other programs, including most file browsers.
- LMB: selects the bones in that set exclusively; it deselects any other bones not in that set.
- Shift-LMB: adds the set to your selection.
- Ctrl-LMB: removes the set from your selection.
To the right of each set is a button labelled "..." that opens an options panel for that set. It enables you to:
- rename the selection set
- add your selection to that set.
- remove your selection from that set.
- delete the selection set.