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[Deidamia Bassiti]

Mostof the rigs that I've seen (or created) can only achieve a certain degree of automated rotation before the face direction controller reaches its limits. After that point, it's usually up to the animator to custom pose the rig into the desired shape. Sometimes I keep separate dummy animation tracks to store the keyframes for these custom angles, then just copy those keys into my main animation timeline when I need to hit that pose again. So you can't get a 360 automated rotation, but you can do some extra legwork and still achieve it manually.

I've seen a lot of people asking about ways to rig up automatic custom poses to achieve more smoothly automated controllers like CA4 has. As Erika mentions in this thread, a lot of cartooning programs use scripts to achieve this effect, which she also confirms aren't planned for Spine for the near future.

Now if I can take a moment to hijack your thread to address Nate... Hi, Nate! I've been ruminating on this matter for a while now, though I'm sure you've put no small amount of thought into it as well. I should obviously preface this with the fact I'm not a programmer, but I feel like a script-free and potentially lightweight solution may be possible. It may also be somewhat related to the planned Range Constraints feature, but it doesn't seem encompassed by it, so bare with me.

In my mind, this is identical to if one were to go to the Preview panel and slowly drag the Alpha up from 0 to 100 on a separate animation track containing keys on only the necessary elements of the target pose.

The benefit to a system like this is that the animator could control that alpha-blend-like process themselves using any elected bone as the controller. Maybe they make a dedicated control box bone like the one this user envisioned. Maybe they grab a forearm and connect the activation of the target pose (a swollen bicep) with a specific rotation value of the forearm.

With each of these yellow dots representing a defined target pose coordinate, a single controller bone moving through these coordinates could blend seamlessly through many extremes and a rigger could add breakdown poses to fix any zones where the posing falls apart, which seems to be quite similar to how CA4 is treating the setup.

If, like in the Preview panel, there were the option of applying that target pose additively, a rigger would even be able to set up a system where specific elements of an expression could be applied through control sliders, behaving very closely to Maya's Blendshapes feature.

Much of this is already possible to some degree if an animator were to work extensively with a programmer to create a control system in something like Unity, wherein some scripted sliders in Unity would control the Alpha blend of a list of 'target pose' animation tracks to achieve dynamic expressions at runtime. If that much is possible, then it feels like having that sort of system directly controlled within the Editor could significantly empower animators, compared to the classic 'store a special pose keyframe in another timeline to paste in when you need it' approach, and could be applied to a wide range of custom poses outside the classic example of a head turn.

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