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MG-Picker Studio animator mode:

 

 

The UI of animator mode is designed to be as simple as possible, to save the workspace for animator.

The power of this mode, focus on the picker searching & loading, and the user interactive of the picker.

Warning In animator mode, all edit to picker are not savable, you must press F8 hotkey to switch to Designer mode in order to save the edit.

Warning In animator mode, all unsaved edit won't be warned before you close the pickers or quit the application.

It is designed to act like this for not bugging the animator too much since they will frequently close/load different pickers.

lightbulb Use hotkey "F8" to switch between animator mode  & designer mode.

 

UI Quick go through:

 

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(1)  Minimize button:  click to minimize MG-Picker Studio UI into a very small window.

(2)  Animator Interactive: This is the mode you need to use when you just want to use picker.

(3)  Simple Edit Interactive: When you want to add picker buttons, edit button color, position, adding some select-buttons, command-buttons and other buttons, you switch to this mode.

(4)  Namespace Field: This field shows the namespace of current picker. Left clicking on this area will pop up menu, where you could switch different pickers.

(5)  Edit Namespace Button: Click to edit the namespace of current picker.

(6)  Search & Load Button: Click to search and load related picker file/node. It will picker the namespace of selected maya node, and find and load the corresponding picker node/file.

(7)  More Features Button: The button serves as a "more features" button. LMB click it to visit more features.

(8)  Picker Tabs: The Tabs support drag & drop  action between layout area to reorder the tabs. Middle click to close it.

(9)  Layout Switcher: Click on this button to switch to single/multiple picker views.

 

Help Topics For Animator:

Loading Pickers

Set Namespace

Viewport Manipulation

Animator Interactivity

Simple Editing

MG-Select Helper

Tips For Animator

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