Finally getting a start on cleaning house for 2011/2012. I’ve boiled down my essential icons/scripts and will continue to update this post with shelf specific mels.

None of these are written by me…they’re all scripts I use on a daily basis from the kindness of other animators/tds out there who like to make our lives easier.

Until I package these up with 2009 and 2011 versions, here’s a link to the script directory with icons:? Many of these shelf icons are already mel commands, but because I do a bit of personal work on my tablet pc, I like having them at the ready.

A quick description of the ones I can’t live without.

copyTransf – A programmer friend, Danny Burbol tweaked Jeremy Cantor’s script so it will copy world space transformations ? over time. A poor man’s space switch.http://coopdesign.org/blog/
EulerFilter – a stock maya command I also use as a hotkey.
frac – a rename of del_fractional.mel – kills keys on integers. Useful for retiming
ghost and unghost selected – I tend to like the same number of frame steps so I turned them into hotkeys
1/2 speed ? - this one I haven’t released, as it’s TJ Phan’s. A quick polishing tool that toggles playback rate from real time (as much as maya does real time) to half speed.
insert keys – another mel command – [setKeyframe -insert] ? - ? useful for making sure you have whole pose keys, a workflow I prefer. The handy thing about this v. set keys is that it doesn’t change the tangency of the graph editor curve.
keyPlus and Minus - there are a ton of these out there. It’s a quick way to retime your scene or insert blank space between keys. I map these to ctrl-minus and ctrl-plus, and for stepping by 3, shift-ctrl minus and plus.
tweenMachine – Justin Barrett’s wonderful script for adding breakdowns while in stepped mode. Also playing around lately with ackSteppedTween.
? onionSkin – a little buggy, but when it works, it’s great…creates a snapshot of your scene and makes it a ghosted image plane. Great for lining stuff up or analyzing spacing.
? tangent tools - shelves for changing both keying type, and what the tangents do. Great for doing rough tangent work in the graph editor, or popping between stepped and spline, my preferred workflow.
 

Hotkeys
9 – toggle xray
ctrl shift x – cut keys
alt j – toggle joints
alt-n toggle nurbs curve
ctrl shift s – insert keys
ctrl plus minus – add/remove keys