Overview

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Roll Cake

• Automatically generated animation keys for pre/post-roll sections, streamlining the animating process.
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Impact

Reduced manual keyframing by automatically generating pre- and post-roll animation keys, accelerating the animating workflow.

Environment

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Based on

• Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx)
• GNOME (Desktop Manager) </aside>

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USD

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Maya 2024.2

• maya.cmds, mel
• Embedded Python 3.10 </aside>

Features

• Automatically sets keys in the pre-roll and post-roll sections only for attributes with existing keyframes on user-selected objects (animCurve, nurbsCurve, locator, transform).

Mechanism Overview