AnimLayer-per-Group Baking

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Hello! Got a situation.

Situation

I have a bunch of Markers in their own Groups, each Group called:

  • Feet
  • Spine
  • Arms
  • Fingers

I now need each Group baked onto its own AnimLayer.

Current Workflow

I can perform a bake for each group manually, though it’ll be pretty time consuming since I have to:

  1. Select the controls
  2. Bake with Use Selection ON enabled
  3. Rename the AnimLayer to “Arms”, then disable it
  4. Select another group and repeat steps 1-4 (until all groups are baked)
  5. Enable all Layers to see the full Sim

Now I can animate the Layer’s Weights through time, whenever I need to switch to Sim and back. In my case, super useful if the hand can be Ragdoll until it has to point to a X on a Map (which is precise), then relax back to the Anim.

Request

Could we have the option to bake Groups to their own Layers?

Thank you!

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Hey @isai, thanks for the suggestion!

This is a good idea, I’ll add an option to the record dialog.

Until then, here’s something you can do to speed up your current workflow.

Step 1 - Record

Nothing special here, just a normal record.

Step 2 - Extract

Select one or more controls, then select the layer and go “Extract Selected”. It will move the selected controls onto that new animation layer, from the selected layer.

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That’s exactly the process I boiled it down to :slight_smile: Now attempting to write a script for it!

Thank you, Marcus!