tools & scripts

surfRig & bkTools

This includes my personal Maya utilities kit, but the highlight of the release is surfRig: an easy to use PyMel tool for making NURBS surface based joint rigs. Joints slide over surfaces or sub-surfaces with the click of a button. Create complex, weighted parent control setups. Edit after skinning worry-free. See the blog post for full details.

Find it here.

uiMaster

uiMaster is an interface mod plugin for Maya 2014-2016.5 (PySide1 era). Reclaim precious screen space with drag'n'drop tabs in a simple, expandable panel layout. It works with native and custom UIs, remembers your configurations, tucks away anywhere, and lets you instantly focus and expand only the editors you need at any moment. Read the full blog post about it here.

Download it here.

Instructions: Put uiMaster.py in Maya plugins folder and execute "uiMaster" in MEL.