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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><img alt="pickerv2" width="525" height="231" style="margin:0;width:525px;height:231px;border:none" src="pickerv2.png"/></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to MG-Picker Studio v2!</span></p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.38;">MG-Picker Studio is a very intuitive and animator-friendly Maya picker tool, with powerful features that enable you to create your own picker without any prior knowledge of coding.</p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.38;">Meanwhile, it also comes with full-fledged API support which makes it fits well into your pipeline.</p>
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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_Normal" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">What's New in V2 :</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">1.</span>Support Maya 2017+, for Maya 2016 or older versions, you have to stick to MG-Picker v1. </p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">2.</span>V2 is fully compatible with the v1 file, and the v2 file is partially compatible with v1, which means the new flags introduced will be lost if loaded in v1.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">3.</span>The tool is available as a standalone application beside the Maya plug-in so that you don't need to launch Maya in order to design the picker.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">4.</span>The standalone mode come with remote connection feature to other DCC, e.g. Blender, and the list will keep expanding.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">5.</span>SVG support: Draw & design picker in your favorite vector graphics editor, export as SVG, and import as multiple picker buttons. Tested with SVG exported from Inkscape & Adobe Illustrator.<br />
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There is also API support to do batch SVG import.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">6.</span>Support for hover state image for image shape.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">7.</span>Batch editing image component feature is added to quickly set images of other states based on existing state.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">8.</span>Outliner Panel: Similar to Maya's outliner panel, which provides an overview of items in the picker file, including those hidden ones.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">9.</span>Style Panel: An easy way to store a batch of styles and apply it later.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">10.</span>Relationship View: To help the picker designer easily understand the visibility control relationship, some relationship values, and visibility operator editing.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">11.</span>Picker UI Panel: A centralized place to edit picker-level attributes: author, email, message, background color, and command callbacks.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">12.</span>New picker item: Group, a simplified version of the picker panel, a set of grouping features added: Group, Ungroup, Parent, Unparent, etc.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">13.</span>New picker item: Graph Item, a non-interactive item that is purely for decoration.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">14.</span>Support view anchor for group and panel, so that you can pin a certain group or panel to the viewport, keep it anchored and stretched with viewport. This is ideal to mimic menu bar, docker panel, etc.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">15.</span>Support importing picker items from picker file and picker node.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">16.</span>Allow group, panel, items that do not share the same direct parent to be mirrored</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">17.</span>Allow multiple target values for int/double attribute buttons when building attr-links.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">18.</span>Use clipped shapes for all items.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">19.</span>New "Equilateral" property for a triangle shape.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">20.</span>Support scale and scaleFit for image shape.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">21.</span>Support icons and icon options for attribute button with widgetControl shapes.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">22.</span>Support disabling auto-generated tooltip.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">23.</span>New alignToLastSelected option added for easier alignment.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">24.</span>Allow user to customise the separator characters between picker namespace and sub-namespace and node base names.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">25.</span>Massive refractors and code clean-up for easier future maintenance.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">26.</span>Improvement on picker run-time performance, especially for those shape-heavy and link-heavy pickers.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">27.</span>Auto-Save Temp Picker on exit and auto-load at the next launch, it can be turned off in the user preference dialog.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">28.</span>Global Transform Tool: By default now we transform all descendants and you can toggle this option in its context menu.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">29.</span>Performance HUD: A small display to measure your picker file performance.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">30.</span>Dnd enhancement: Support dnd picker file to load it, image file to set as image path.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">31.</span>Various API enhancements to cover the new features.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">32.</span>New UI style and icons.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">33.</span>Use a non-native file dialog where you can paste the file path to pick it.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">34.</span>Various bug fixes and tons of minor improvements.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"> </p>
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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_Normal" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">V1 Feature List :</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">1.</span>Design powerful, animator-friendly pickers even without any coding.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">2.</span>Very rich picker interaction with animator, selection synchronization.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">3.</span>Multiple picker views at the same time, zoomable picker view.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">4.</span>Select-button for node selection.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">5.</span>Command button for command executing.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">6.</span>Attribute button to control other picker item visibilities as well as Maya attribute.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">7.</span>Slider to control two attributes maximum via its translation in x/y.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">8.</span>Text item to annotate your picker.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">9.</span>Picker panel to organize your picker.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">10.</span>1-click to create all the types above.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">11.</span>Snapshot for images used in the picker, image editing within the tool.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">12.</span>Pose command button with thumbnail images.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">13.</span>Free-form picker shapes, fully customizable looking. Supports polygon and bezier curve button shape drawing.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">14.</span>Left/right-clicking menu creation/editing for each picker item.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">15.</span>Powerful mirroring feature.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">16.</span>Embeddable within the asset using Maya's built-in node type.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">17.</span>Templates to speed up picker creation.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">18.</span>The full solution for distributing pickers among the production pipeline.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">19.</span>The rich mechanism for extending the picker functionality. All picker items are fully programmable using MEL/Python API.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; line-height: 1.80; padding-left: 20px; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><span class="f_Normal" style="display:inline-block;width:20px;margin-left:-20px">20.</span>No custom node types, Maya scene is totally independent of the tool.</p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"> </p>
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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_Normal" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">MG-Picker Studio v2 OS & Maya Requirement : </span><br />
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Maya 2017+ <a href="https://www.helpandmanual.com/order.html" class="weblink">Click here to view the latest Maya version supported</a> </p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 96px;"> </p>
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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_Normal" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">About the Developer :</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelwinfield/" target="_blank" class="weblink" title="Linked-In">Miguel Gao</a>, a senior software developer in Animal Logic Australia, a former animator, a former animation lead, and also the developer of the Maya animator utility belt: MGTools Pro.</p>
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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_Normal" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px">▪</span><span class="f_ImageCaption"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedback:</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;">Any bug reports or suggestions will be appreciated, the best way is to e-mail your feedback to <a href="mailto:mgpickerstudio@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="weblink">mgpickerstudio@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;">If you are willing to contribute by translating MG-Picker Studio into your local language, please contact <a href="mailto:mgpickerstudio@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="weblink">mgpickerstudio@gmail.com</a> to ask for the .ts file, which will be greatly appreciated. </p>
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<p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.80; margin: 0 0 0 24px;">The full translation will cost you maybe three days.</p>
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