Utility Scripts
These are just some small scripts that make life easier.
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AH_makeNulls.ls
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Version Compatability
This plugin was developed in Lightwave 2019, and they works in Lightwave 2020, 2019 and 2018. It probably also works in 2015 but it hasn't been tested.
There are as many scripts for batch making nulls as there are people who make lightwave scripts. This one is mine, and it is setup primarily for rigging. It creates nulls with the same locations and positions as the selected items, and provides several different options for setting up how the relate to each other and to the selection items. when it is done making the new nulls it leaves you with your new nulls selected so that you can easily set item shapes or make any other batch changes to them.
it provides the following options:
- Add Prefix to the selected item names.
- Add Suffix to the selected item names.
- Replace a string in the selected item names with another string.
- Make new nulls parents or children of the selected items.
- Make the new nulls replicate the hierarchy of the selection.
- Make the position, rotation and/or scale of the selected items "Same as Item" constrained to new nulls.
- Make the position, rotation and/or scale of the new nulls "Same as Item" constrained to the selected items.
- Local or World "Same as Item".
- Add influence envelopes to the same as item constraints (This can't be done for multiple items at once with the native tools and can be a real chore if you have lots of items.)
- Hide and/or Lock the new Nulls or the original selection.
- Set item color for the new selection.
AH_Zlimit.ls
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Version Compatability
This plugin was developed in Lightwave 2019, and they works in Lightwave 2020, 2019 and 2018. It probably also works in 2015 but it hasn't been tested.
This is a very simple script but incredibly useful when setting up stretchy inverse kinematics setups. It has no interface. All it does is take whatever selection you have and copies the current Z position to the minimum Z limit for each item. It also sets a maximum z limit of 1000.