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<p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption" style="font-size: 10pt;">There are two types of links</span><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt;">:</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt;">Parent Link:</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Parent link is only available for select-buttons and the slider handles (which are actually also select-buttons).</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Active the link tool </span><img alt="linkTool" width="27" height="28" style="margin:0;width:27px;height:28px;border:none" src="linktool.jpg"/><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">, press one select-button, drag, and link to another select-button.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">If lots of buttons need to be linked to a single parent select-button, just select the children select-button first, then press and drag to link them to the parent select-button.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The parent link helps out the hierarchy selection in animator mode, and also gives animators a sense of "Hierarchy" :</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">with the parent links been setup, animator LMB double clicking on the parent select-button:</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><img alt="parentLink.1" width="184" height="107" style="margin:0;width:184px;height:107px;border:none" src="parentlink.1.jpg"/></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Then he will have the nodes from both parent and all children select-buttons selected in Maya scene:</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><img alt="parentLink.2" width="184" height="107" style="margin:0;width:184px;height:107px;border:none" src="parentlink.2.jpg"/><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">From MG-Picker Studio v1.7, you can connect a select-button to multiple parent select-buttons.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"> </p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt;">Attribute Link:</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The attribute link is used by attribute button to control other picker item visibilities.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The source of an attribute link could be any type of picker item, while the destination of the link should always be an attribute button.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Say you have a boolean attribute button, control all the other picker items:</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><img alt="attrLink.1" width="319" height="202" style="margin:0;width:319px;height:202px;border:none" src="attrlink.1.jpg"/></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Click on the value area, all the other items will be hidden.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><img alt="attrLink.2" width="319" height="202" style="margin:0;width:319px;height:202px;border:none" src="attrlink.2.jpg"/></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"> </p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <img alt="lightbulb" width="16" height="16" style="margin:0;width:16px;height:16px;border:none" src="lightbulb.png"/> The attribute link is not visible in animator mode, and in animator mode, you could click any part of an attribute button to switch its value.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <img alt="lightbulb" width="16" height="16" style="margin:0;width:16px;height:16px;border:none" src="lightbulb.png"/> Not only a boolean value attribute-button could toggle other items' visibilities, the enum type, or Maya attribute button could do this job.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <img alt="lightbulb" width="16" height="16" style="margin:0;width:16px;height:16px;border:none" src="lightbulb.png"/> Since MG-Picker Studio v1.7, any picker item can be linked to multiple master attribute buttons. These attribute buttons together control</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">the visibility of the item. You can set up "and" / "or" visibility operator to change the behavior of how the visibility is controlled. "and" means</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">only if all attribute buttons got the value that makes item visible, then the item is visible; "or" means as long as one attribute button got the desired</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">value, the item will be visible.</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 48px;"><span class="f_Heading1" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><img alt="lightbulb" width="16" height="16" style="margin:0;width:16px;height:16px;border:none" src="lightbulb.png"/><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> Since MG-Picker Studio v2, there is a <a href="relationshippanel.htm" class="topiclink">relationship panel</a> that helps you understand the visibility relationships.</span></p>
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