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In a previous post I went over “Plotting and Plot Options<\/a>” as well as “dir”<\/a> where we exposed the “MirrorMode” of a Character.<\/p>\n Now with all that information exposed I will show you how I created a simple script that will mirror a\u00a0Character’s animation, first by setting the “MirrorMode” to be enabled, then we will plot the animation and finally the “MirrorMode” will be set off.<\/p>\n In production I created a similar script for my team except it had worked like this: This type of script is great to not only make mirroring animation faster but also to ensure that turning “MirrorMode” off is never forgotten – I did that a lot.<\/p>\n I hope this helps.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a previous post I went over “Plotting and Plot Options” as well as “dir” where we exposed the “MirrorMode” of a Character. Now with all that information exposed I will show you how I created a simple script that will mirror a\u00a0Character’s animation, first by setting the “MirrorMode” to be enabled, then we will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_4039.jpg?fit=244%2C127","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pltq-4I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81,"url":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/plotting-character-animation-with-a-motionbuilder-python-script\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":0},"title":"Plotting Character Animation With A MotionBuilder Python Script .\u00a0","author":"admin","date":"February 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's go over how to use Python to plot animation onto a character's Control Rig. 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\n1. Create a Copy of the Current take
\n2. Name the New take to “the original takes name” + “_Mirrored”
\n3. On the New take (“the original takes name” + “_Mirrored”) set the “MirrorMode” to be on
\n4. Set up my Plotting Options and Plot to Skeleton and then back to Ctrl rig (just like we did with the above script)
\n5. Turn Mirror Mode off<\/p>\n