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ietra
10-27-2005, 06:35 PM
This has bugged me since Maya 4.

I always work with weighted tangents. I always want them to be free weighted. ALWAYS! It's the only way I work.

There has been a preference now for a few versions that new keys be weighted, which is nice and all, but to me it's useless if I have to then manually free tangent weights every single time. I know I can free weights on an entire curve, or several curves, but still -- why isn't this an obvious preference I can set?

I have to be missing something, right? Tell me I'm missing something. A button, some workaround, a script. Anything. Let my tangents go!
ietra
10-30-2005, 01:13 AM
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wrend
10-31-2005, 01:20 AM
you could wrap your setKeyframe callers into one you create adding keyTangents to it for unlocking tangents on any curves attached to the object(s) your currently keying. If you can script, or somebody in your house can, it can be done.
ietra
11-16-2005, 09:49 PM
you could wrap your setKeyframe callers into one you create adding keyTangents to it for unlocking tangents on any curves attached to the object(s) your currently keying. If you can script, or somebody in your house can, it can be done.

I do script, but that's a little outside my current knowledge base... would that involve creating a script job? Would you mind elaborating a little bit, or perhaps pointing me in the right direction?

(and sorry about the 2 week lag)
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