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Libraries

Rigging

  • Angular Nodes

    Library of Maya nodes to do arithmetic on angles without polluting the scene with unitConversion nodes.

  • Array Nodes

    Set of Maya nodes for operating on arrays of values.

  • Bake Instancer

    Bake an instancer node to individual animated pieces of geometry.

  • boneToMesh

    Maya plugin for creating proxy geometry for rigs.

  • CommandSearch

    Read all buttons in Maya's native menu and make them searchable and executable.

  • Cult of Rig

    Yes

Pipeline

  • animx

    A project to make it easier for people to use Maya animation in their tools and pipelines.

  • maya-alembic-export

    Alembic exporting made easier.

  • mayaTaskServer

    A standalone Maya Task Server.

  • uExport

    uExport is a simple tool to automatically export complex characters from Maya to Unreal Engine 4.

Scripting

  • blendergltf

    Addon for Blender that adds the ability to export to the gltf format

  • Charcoal Editor

    Professional Maya Scripting.

  • connect

    Manage Cragl tools.

  • Kraken

    Modular character rigging framework built on top of Fabric Engine.

  • MayaCharm

    Maya integration for PyCharm.

  • MayaSublime

    Send selected Python and MEL code snippets from SublimeText to Maya via commandPort

Animation

  • Blue Pencil

    Sketchpad for Maya

  • KeyFrame MP

    Playblast and Reference Viewer.

  • KeyFrame Pro

    Professional Media playback and review tool.

  • ml_tools

    Animation and Rigging tools from Morgan Loomis.

  • pyGhost

    Ghosting for animators.

  • Tradigitools

    Plugin for Maya (and now Cinema 4D) that promotes a more traditional workflow for animation with digital tools.

Modeling

  • polyReorder

    Maya plugin with tools to reorder the vertices on a mesh to match the order of another match.

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