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Thanks to the kind help of Tieum, Phid and the people at Mac Guff for providing compiled plugin versions for Linux and Windows (Maya 6 and 7). The Linux versions are tested on Suse 9 but should also work on Redhat. They also worked through the UI mel scripts and made sure they display correctly on Linux. This has been done for Rotate Deltas and Paint Deform too.

Btw, the BCS got an update to 1.0.8. This solves the NURBS mirrorGeo bug and corrects a really hard to find problem with interference between the bcs plugin and other deformers like clusters, etc.. Prior to this, having the bcs loaded was enough to slow down deformer heavy scenes considerably.

BCS for Maya 7
The bcs package now contains a plugin version for Maya 7 (windows). Many thanks to Zach Gray for compiling and submitting this version. Also in this version 1.0.7, there are some minor changes to the UI. See the version history in the download description for more details.

ACS Update
Just found a really ugly little bug in the ACS v1.03 that made it useless for most setups when the acs node isn't called "ACSnode1". Removing just one line of code solved it, so please download the latest version v1.04 if you're still using v1.03.

Deformation Test
Here are two little deformation tests showing a bit of my current mouth setup using the bcs. The participating AUs are 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, and 27. These test animations don't demonstrate the full flexibility of the setup as I didn't put too much time into them.

    

Click (or right-click -> Save Target As...) the images to see the tests.

Version 2.1 of the AnimUI adds the possibility to import and export sections into the library. This may be useful for setting up multiple characters with similar attributes.

The ACS got a few updates and is now version 1.03. Please see its description for the version history.

Also, the ACS Copy and Reorder Attrs scripts have been updated. The latter now works on nodes that have an animUI setup.

Hi there, I took another look at the memory management of the BCS and decided it was time for an enhancement. The result is that dataPoints now need about 17 times less RAM.

This should be more apparent with setups of several hundred dataPoints. I could reduce the memory usage of 700 dataPoints (in my example scene with about 1800 vertices) from 250 MB to 14 MB!


P.S. Sorry for the download problem of the Rotate Deltas script, it's now fixed.

A very valuable user feedback proposed adding the ability to open the animUI in a panel. Well... so here it is for anyone interested.

Version 2.0.2 of the DPK_animUI can be opened in a panel. This will look e.g. like this: