Script: SRT Animation Offseter

["Oz Adi" <oz(at)broadcast.co.il>]

Hi,

Just finished writing a little scirpt.
In 3DSMAX, if you have an object with animation, and you move/rotate/scale it
without hitting the "animate" key, the program offsets the SRT animation  curves of the object to the new location.

This is very handy sometimes... (you cannot  put a null above an animated
object, on it's pivot, and move/rotate/scale it from there)

This is my first script ever, currently I am using every free hour to study Jscript in XSI
from Helge's Scripting DVD (www.3dtutorial.com thanks Helge!)

I wrote this script as a practice of what I've learned so far (not much ;)

I am sure it could have been written a lot cleaner, shorter and smarter.. but hey... :)

I tested it in various conditions, and it seems to work ...
please let me know otherwise!

To use the script:

1) Select one object with S and/or R and/or T animation curves
2) go to a any frame on the timeline.
3) without saving a key' rotate,scale and/or translate the object to the desired offset
4) run the script, and check on/off which channels you wish to offset, click OK, and gaze in wonder

** The script will offset the entire FCurve, next version might do it for a range of frames.

As far as I know, you can only do it on a clip in the mixer (offset map)
and I missed it for normal keys...

download from here : http://www.ozadi.com/scripts/animation-offseter.zip

 

cheers,

 

Oz Adi

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