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Animation Tool Kit v1.1.2

Animation Tool Kit (ATK) v1.1.2 is now available.

This is a major quality release: six tools were rebuilt or significantly upgraded, toolbar buttons gained one-click quick actions, three tools gained Maya hotkey support, and a toolkit-wide audit fixed installer text corruption, event-callback leaks, and distribution bloat across the whole package.

Release information

  • Version: 1.1.2
  • Package: Animation-Tool-Kit_v1_1_2.zip
  • Type: Production release
  • Platform: Autodesk Maya 2022+ (Maya 2025+ recommended)
  • Install method: Drag-and-drop install_atk_toolbar.mel into Maya

Highlights

One-click toolbar actions

  • AnimSnap — left-click the toolbar button to snap the first selected object to the second (all axes) instantly. Right-click for the full window, snap-translate/rotate-only actions, and hotkey setup.
  • Reset Tool — left-click resets all transforms on the selection instantly. Right-click for the full window, individual translate/rotate/scale resets, and hotkey setup.

Maya hotkey support

Xform Copy Paste, AnimSnap, and Reset Tool now include a "Setup / Edit Hotkeys..." dialog: click a field, press a key combination, Apply. Bindings are written to your Maya hotkey set (with locked Maya_Default handling), appear in the Hotkey Editor under Custom Scripts, and persist between sessions.

Xform Copy Paste 2.0

  • Rebuilt window in the ATK design language with a vertical scroll layout and color-coded status pill.
  • Removed the phantom shelf modifier-click "hotkeys" that never existed; real hotkeys via the new setup dialog.
  • Locked or connected channels (common on rig controls) no longer abort a paste — they skip with a warning.
  • World-space scale now lands correctly on objects under scaled parents.

Wire Shape Tool 2.0

  • Shapes reorganized into Primitives / Arrows & Direction / Rig Controls / Utility sections with live search.
  • 14 new rig-ready controller shapes: Diamond 3D, Triangle, Hexagon, Half Circle, Curved Arrow, Spin Arrows, Root, Gear, Pole Vector, Lollipop, Paddle, Foot, Eye Target, Flag.
  • New Offset Dummy builder: a locator-style gizmo control wrapped in a configurable chain of offset groups (name_ZERO > name_OFS1..n > name_CTRL) for clean nulls, constraint targets, and layered offsets — plus a helper that wraps existing objects in matched offset groups without moving them.

Smart Select Sets 2.5

  • No more permanently empty "Uncategorized" box — category boxes only appear once they hold sets (or right after you create one).
  • The create dialog now includes a set-name field, an existing-category dropdown, and an optional new category field.
  • Right-click a selection button to add it to a Maya shelf as a self-contained button (works with the tool closed; Shift+click adds to selection), plus Duplicate Group, Copy Object List, and Remove from Selection.
  • Full ATK restyle, validation caching for a faster filter, and scene-event callback leak fixes.

SavePlus 2.0.5

  • Fixed a duplicate closeEvent that leaked protected scene-event callbacks every time the tool was opened and closed.
  • Removed leftover debug scaffolding that faked a "4 minutes since last save" reminder right after launch and hid file monitoring behind the reminders checkbox.
  • Full ATK restyle with a primary Save Plus action, clear per-button explanations, and a quieter log.

AnimSnap 1.1

  • Rebuilt window in the ATK design language; snaps are a single undo step and locked channels skip safely.

Toolkit-wide fixes

  • Installer text corruption fixed everywhere — em dashes and other special characters in eight .mel installers rendered as garbage (â€") on Windows; all installer dialogs, warnings, and titles are now clean ASCII, and the ATK install-complete dialog was rewritten with a clearer summary.
  • Stale embedded installers re-synced — the Add/Remove Inbetweens and Inbetweener drag-and-drop installers embed a copy of the tool source that had drifted from the shipped .py; both now deliver identical code on either install path.
  • Event-callback leaks fixed — SavePlus and Smart Select Sets no longer leave scene-open callbacks running after their windows close.
  • Deprecated Qt calls updated (exec_ → exec) across the toolbar, Playblast Creator, Inbetweener, and Reset Tool for PySide6 compatibility.
  • 70 stale compiled bytecode files removed from the package — these could shadow updated scripts after partial upgrades.
  • All tool windows verified against the shared ATK visual style.

Included tools

Timing

  • Inbetweener (v2.0.2)
  • Add / Remove Frames (v1.0.2)
  • Tangent Tools (v1.0.0)
  • TweenMachine (v3.x)
  • Noise Generator (v1.1.0)
  • Xform Copy Paste (v2.0.0)
  • Bookmarks (v0.1.0)

Viewport

  • Micro Manipulator (v1.0.0)
  • Temp Pivot (v1.0.5)
  • Onion Skin (v2.2.0)
  • AnimSnap (v1.1.0)

Rigging

  • Wire Shape Tool (v2.0.0)
  • Reset Tool (v2.0.1)
  • Selection Set / Smart Select Sets (v2.5.0)
  • Character Snapshot (v1.0.0)
  • Mirror Controls (v2.3.1)

Pipeline

  • SavePlus (v2.0.5)
  • Studio Library (v2.21.1)
  • Playblast Creator (v2.0.4)
  • User Directory Check (v1.0.0)

Installation

  1. Download Animation-Tool-Kit_v1_1_2.zip from the release assets.
  2. Extract the archive.
  3. In Maya, drag and drop install_atk_toolbar.mel into the viewport.
  4. Confirm install when prompted.
  5. Launch the toolbar from the new ATK shelf button.

Upgrading from a previous version: run the installer again — it replaces the toolbar package, purges stale cached scripts, and refreshes the shelf button automatically.

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