Maya Skinning tools v5

By

Perry Leijten

# SkinningTools
maya 2017+
windows/ osx/ linux

refactor of the original skinning tools

https://gumroad.com/l/skinningTools_PL

# launch & install

drag and drop the mel file into the maya window, it will open a dialog in which you can start to install the skinningtools
after the intaller is complete, restart maya and use this `python` command to open the window:

import SkinningTools

myWindow = SkinningTools.tool()

# tooltips
since the tooltips are Gifs, and take up quite some space while gumroad does not allow for big files these will be downloaded automatically. in some cases this does not work so you can find the tooltips here:
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/skinningtoolstooltips.appspot.com/o/tooltips.zip?alt=media&token=07f5c1b1-f8c2-4f18-83ce-2ea65eee4187

make sure that these are unpacked in the SkinningTools/Maya/tooltips directory

# Authors
* Robert Joosten; http://technicaldirector.nl/

* Mio Zwickl; https://www.artstation.com/ikitamonday

* Rodolphe Vaillant; http://rodolphe-vaillant.fr/

* Trevor van Hoof; http://trevorius.com/scrapbook/

* Jan Pijpers; https://www.janpijpers.com/

* Perry Leijten; https://www.perryleijten.com/

# versions:

* 5.0.20210325:

added support for python 3( maya 2022)

build plugins for maya 2022
added repeat last functionality to the marking menu operations

* 5.0.20210219:
added 2 new tools
fixed enhanced tooltips not closing properly

* 5.0.20210213:
update on marking menu as some instances in maya did not convert widgets properly to QGraphicsProxyWidget, making it not able to find the correct widget to acces the functions

* 5.0.20210212:
fixed some small typos in progressbar
updated api documentation
fixed download tooltips (if the download is broken during install it will continue install and request download later)

# extra packages:

* kdTree

Author: Matej Drame

License: MIT license

* Controls sliders

Author: Daniele Niero; https://github.com/daniele-niero

License: GNU license

* paint skin weight pickwalking

Author: Ryan Porter; https://yantor3d.wordpress.com/

* pyprof2calltree

Author: David Allouche

Licences: Freeware(MIT) https://github.com/pwaller/pyprof2calltree/blob/master/LICENSE

* qcahcegrind

Author: Josef Weidendorfer

Licences:

- kcachegrind: GPLv2 (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/License.html)

- Qt: LGPL 2.1 (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/lgpl.html)

- dot: EPL (http://www.graphviz.org/License.php)

* google_trans_new

Author: LuShan

Licences: Freeware(MIT) https://github.com/lushan88a/google_trans_new

* requests

Author: Kenneth Reitz

Licences: Apache 2.0 http://python-requests.org