Back In It

So I've been in school and had this half-job that pulled me away just as I was starting this thing but the guy who half-hired me is out of the picture, so fuck it I'm back here to finish this full body rig, a face rig, and a UI to operate and manage animation on both rigs. So my scripts have a setup, a base to which a user can pick the positions of the joints. The makeTorso looks for your $characterName hip and should locators to layout the torso. The makeNeckHead does the same thing when creating the neck and head controls. The makeArm script has to look for more points instead of just two so instead we'll just check to see if the beginning and ending locators exist, assuming that if the first and last exist all other specific points in between do too. This should be the cap stones for the script:

makeArm(string $characterName)
{
//do both of these exist? &&

if( (`objExists ($characterName + "_cnst_left_collar_loc")`) && (`objExists ($characterName + "_cnst_left_handEnd_loc")`))
{
print "We've got an arm!";
//arm code inserted in here
} else {
warning("No construction arm points exists!");
}
}

This is just to properly error out, so you know when and where the script went wrong. But I got ahead of myself, what about left and right arms? I don't want to have to write a script to cover both left and right. I would rather right a script that could easily toggle which $side I am operating on. So I will create a string variable array with left in the [0] and right in the [1]; string $side[] = {"left", "right"};

So actually the very beginning should be a one-two loop to repeat everything once for the left, and once for the right. I'll continue this tomorrow.