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Introduction

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This script for Daz Studio 1, 2, 3, 4 lets you perform actions on the selected nodes over a range of frames

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Use

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Select one or many nodes to process

Select the action to apply and the range of frames to apply it to.

You should be familiar with the "Dz" actions

there's also mcj actions which require 2 nodes to be selected, a "Target" node and one or many nodes that will compy some of the Target's behavior

Move Below Target

Select the node that will act as the ceiling,

select the node you want to move, we will call it the M node

in the "select the target node" section, select the ceiling node

Click the "do it" button

For each frame of the specified time range,

the M node will move up or down just the right amount

to bring the top of its bounding box right below the bottom of the ceiling's bounding box

In the example below, i selected the boots toe node as the ceiling and i selected the floor/plane as the M node

and the floor moved precisely below the boot's toe

Move AboveTarget

Select the node that will act as the floor,

select the node you want to move, we will call it the M node

in the "select the target node" section, select the floor node

Click the "do it" button

For each frame of the specified time range,

the M node will move up or down just the right amount

to bring the bottom of its bounding box right above the top of the floor's bounding box

In the example below, Amy was parented to a small yellow plane,

i selected the blue cone as the floor/target node

i selected the small yellow plane as the M node

and the plane moved precisely above the cone

WorldPos like target

The world position is the position of a node in the scene.

This is very useful when you want an object A to act as if it was attached to another object B

without actually parenting it to object B.

A concrete example: we want Amy's finger tip to push the puck

before the finger touches the puck and after it stops touching it, evidently, the finger has no influence on the puck.

so we cant simply parent the puck to the finger.

At frame 15, we set the scene so the finger tip touches the puck

we create 2 null nodes, we place them at the position of the contact point

we parent the puck to one null node, we parent the other null node to Amy's finger tip

i keyframe everything at frame 15:

- select the puck, the 2 null nodes and click the timeline's "add key" button

- select Amy, Figure/Pose/Memorize then Figure/Pose/Restore

i build the rest of the animation

frames 0 to 14, the finger advances toward the puck

frames 15 to 20 the finger moves forth

frames 21 to 30 the finger pulls back

i select the finger's Null node, i select the puck's null node

i start mcjRepeat Action

i specify the IndexNull as the target ( what will be followed ) and the puckNull will be the follower

i want the WorldPos like target action to be repeated from frame 15 to 20

i click the 'do it' button

and there you have it !

click on the image to view the animation

World Rot like target

World Rotations means the way something is oriented in relation to the scene

this is different from local rotation, for example the X.Y,Z rotations you can see in a foreArm bone's Parameters Panel

lets use this to copy the arm movements from one figure to another

we must start up the hierarchy chain of the arm, the collar

- select Aiko's shoulder,

- select Hiro's shoulder

- specify the Aiko's shoulder as the target ( what will be followed ) and the Hiro's shoulder will be the follower

- specify you want the whole animation time range to be processed ( frames 0 to 30 )

- click the 'do it' button

This manual is incomplete ... to be continued

Click on the image to view the animation

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License

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by mCasual/Jacques

You can use this script freely for personal or commercial use.

You may not sell, resell, sub-license or rent this script in any way.

you may credit this script to mCasual/Jacques

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