mGear 5.0.1 Beta 01

5.0.1 Beta 01

Beta relase for mGear 5.0
This version doesn't need Pymel anymore 🥳

New Features

• New animpicker template for Metahuman (Emilio Serrano Contribution)
• Shiter component: chain_spring_gravity_01 (Emilio Serrano Contribution)

Enhancements

• AnimPicker: Add function to re-order tabs in edit mode#419
• Core: dagmenu.py enhancement. Reset to bindpose, reset all SRT #224
• Crank: add support to use existing blendshapes nodes or creating nodes in foc #416
• Removed Pymel dependency and new wrapper called pymaya (Big thanks to Kim Sol for all the hard work on the wrapper!!)
• SDK IO adding support to blendshape nodes #434
• Shifter: adding Edit button on message window when custom step fails #450
• Spring Manager: Only keyframe relevant attributes Rotate and translate. #420

Bug Fix

• Anim Picker: Lost any tabs that haven't been converted to nurbs when you switch back to picker data. #323
• anim_picker: Reading data file which uses ANIM_PICKER_PATH token is not working #210
• Metahuman template MISC bugs #426
• RBF manager uses f-strings which breaks compatibility with Maya 2020 #417
• RBF Manager: Mirror pose not working correctly #424
• Shifter foot: Toes do not scale together with the fk foot #320
• Shifter: Error using custom_step duplicate function #213

Removed Tools

• Rigbits: PostSpring
• Rigbits: RBF manager v1
• Rigbits: Rope tool
• Synoptic picker

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IMPORTANT NOTE: MacOS Catalina and later has heightened security restrictions on apps and plugins. Run this command in the Terminal, which removes the “quarantine” flag from when it gets downloaded:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /PATH/TO/THE/MGEAR/SOLVERS/DIRECTORY/