hey all,
i’m attempting to ease some animator burden by writing a hand pose tool to circumvent the default CAT hand pose tool. unfortunately, i’m having a hard time finding a method to save/load hand presets (chp’s). i haven’t been able to find much documentation about it so i thought i’d check here.
i’ve tried looking through the controllers on the cat parent, limb, and palm, and none seem to have a method for saving/loading digit preset poses (all have CLP and PSE saving/loading though). does anyone know where i can access the chp stuff? i feel like it must just be buried on a controller that i haven’t stumbled on yet.
this is using max 2010 sp1.
thanks
SavePose and LoadPose are broken methods. instead of saving CHP file format data it saves CLP.
BTW. SaveClip doesn’t work as expected either. it popups save dialog instead of do it quiet.
you can see more methods in CATControlInterface.
so expected behavior would be that $[3].controller.savePose would spit out a CHP file if currently selected node was a palm node, it is just broken?
if so i guess the best result would be build something custom instead of relying on half-functional CAT methods…
i absolutely agree. it’s pretty simple to do by getting/setting SetupTM. also you can add stretching info. CHP stores rotation data only as i remember. right?
yeah CHP is literally just an object/name and a series of quat’s for rotation data. no other data is stored.
thanks for the info