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[Pacifique Nzitonda]

Hi,

I'm looking for a "veteran" who can help me to get a good introduction at OpenMaya stuff.

I would like to learn about:
- deformers (copying weights from deformers to skinCluster, to lattice or even from a mesh to nurbSurface for example...)

- how, really, cluster deformer work

- matrices 
I'm ready to pay.

Thanks

[raul ruiz]

Would be interested in signing up if possible. Would like to learn as well. 

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[Chris Granados- Xian]

Highly recommend Chris Zurbbrig and Chad Vernon’s tutorials.

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[vince touache]

+1 for Chad Vernon, if you're not looking for a personal course.

I'd also mention Complete Maya Programming vol. 1&2, possibly the best book I read when I learnt the api back in the days, although a bit old now (and not focus 100% on the API, covers also some basic concepts of maths applied to 3d)

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[Zeshi Chen]

If you just want to learn about how to write your own deformer, this tutorial is good enough. 

https://www.cgcircuit.com/tutorial/creating-a-custom-jiggle-deformer

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[Zeshi Chen]

But I mean if you really wanna use deformer in a practical way, you should learn C++, since it always deal with large data, which python wrap is not ideal.

[Pacifique Nzitonda]

Hi Guys, I'm not concerned, at least for now, about writing plugins! As far as I know my goal is not to become an RnD guy but AN EXPERT at 3D rigging.
I just need to write utility scripts which I can use in my daily tasks.
So I need to know how to write a tool which transfer weights from one deformer to another (Serializing and Deserializing,...),  how to mirror cluster,  deltaMush weights and so on. 

But all of this need to be done with OpenMaya because It will help me to start learning it.
For instance, when I started to write a simple renamer tool using pymel and PySide2  it helped me to start understanding how to mix maya.cmds and OpenMayaUI so now I want the same approach but for deformers.

[Juan Moraga]

I'd say try first to get some of the already mentioned courses by either Chris or Chad, I can imagine they have discussions enabled for customers where you can interact with them as tutors, but I haven't tried them. Or maybe reach them through their websites in case they are open to 1 to 1 sessions? I can imagine highly experienced people like these don't base their 'busisness' on 1 on 1 sessions, as they can produce widely available content for everyone with much more benefit in the same time frame they teach you, but if I were you I'd definitely try to reach to them.

I don't consider myself expert enough to teach you, but even if I was I would first expect you to use the already available resources, as they are pretty good i.e. autodesk's documentation, autodesk's examples, online tutorials, discussions etc. And if while working on these you get questions you can ask here, or google it.

P.D.: I'd expect a self proclaimed expert rigger to know how Maya plugins work.

Kind regards,

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[Pacifique Nzitonda]

thanks Moraga. 
Don't get me wrong about thinking that I meant that a "rigging expert" should ignore how plugins works! I wanted to mention that FOR NOW I want to focus on what Maya offer as tools and then years later I will write my own plugins as needed. I want to learn step by step but efficiently.

[vince touache]

I think there is a misconception of what plugins do, and it looks like many people consider plugin writing as the logical continuity of regular rigging. In day-to-day work, however, writing plugins (and compiling, ingesting them properly in a pipeline, etc...) and rigging assets are as different as modeling and lighting (ok, maybe not that much^^).

I prefer, by far, someone who knows how to efficiently rig an asset in an animation-friendly way, than someone who will complexify everything just for the sake of feeling better at tech, forgetting that ultimately, the client is an animator, who doesn't care about the underlying logic.

Of course, this is just my opinion, but when I hire people (for a rigging position), I look at the skinning and deformation skills, the clarity of every control, how the puppet behaves, etc... not at whether the person is familiar with MVC, metaclasses, c++ or whatnot.

Again, just my opinion, I'm sure it can be different for other people ;)

[Pacifique Nzitonda]

@vince  I agree with you 100%!!!

[Juan Moraga]

There is a huge leap between knowing how plugins work in Maya, as in its framework and overcomplicating things

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