SMR Helpers panel (SMR)

This panel is part of the Smart Magnet Rig workflow

Functionality

Flexible, customizable panel with multiple buttons, providing easy access to functionality related to rigging, editing, posing, manipulating or repairing of Smart Magnet Rigs.

Premium licenses are also activated and managed via SMR Helpers panel.

Suggested use

Various operations involving Smart Magnet Rigs. See full list below.

Where does it work?

Most operations require Stage or Timeline selections

EDAP Tools shortcut

n/a; open SMR Helpers from Window menu > Other Panels (Extensions in Animate) > SMR Helpers

Customization, Interactions

The panel can be docked as a horizontal or vertical strip, or as a standard rectangular panel.

Shift-dragging a button allows to change its position.
Shift-dragging-and-dropping a button outside of the boundaries of the panel hides the button.
Separators can be added between buttons by dragging them out of the Separator Pool [ | ] at the bottom-right.

Clicking on the [ ··· ] at the bottom right-hand corner pops the Settings dialog with checkboxes allowing to hide/show each of the buttons.
It also provides several preset combinations.

Buttons can be displayed in expanded view with text labels or icon-only compact view.

Full list of buttons


The entries marked with asterisk (*) are only available in the Premium version of EDAP Tools.

IK Effector* – Creates SMR IK Effector(s). Read more…

IK Brace* – Creates SMR IK Brace. Read more…

Show / Hide Controllers* – Toggles the visibility of the SMR_Controllers layer. Read more…

Controllers Opacity* – Decreases the opacity of all SMR Controllers incrementally by 20%. Read more…

Move / Solve* – Invokes Move or Solve IK chains operations, depending on the initial selection. Read more…

Effectors State* – Switches the State of Attached SMR Effector to RIK Active or RIK Inactive. Read more…

Effector Presets* – Displays the Effector Presets Manager dialog. Presets are saved in the SMR Helpers panel itself and are available across documents.

Effector Properties* – Displays the Effector Properties dialog for the currently selected SMR Effector.

Center Marker – Creates a Center Marker. Read more…

Magnet Target – Creates a Magnet Target. Read more…

FK Extender* – Creates a FK Extender. Read more…

Move / Rotate* – Creates a Move / Rotate Transformer. Read more…

Scale Horizontally* – Creates a Horizontal Scale / Skew Transformer. Read more…

Scale Vertically* – Creates a Vertical Scale / Skew Transformer. Read more…

T‑point* – Creates a T‑point. Read more…

Pose Anchor* – Creates a Pose Anchor. Read more…

RC Sliders – Pops a dialog for the creation of RC Sliders. Read more…

Straighten Controllers – Flips Transformers and RC Sliders horizontally if necessary to make user text labels easily readable. Read more…

SMR Sample – Opens a sample file, where users can test Inverse Kinematics and explore other Smart Magnet Rig functionality and tools.

TP Sample* – Opens a sample file, where users can test Transformers, RC Sliders, and TransPoser, as well as Smart Magnet Rig Forward and Inverse Kinematics.

Change Master – Invokes Change Master Parent script. One element of a Smart Magnet Rig has to be selected on Stage. It will become the new Master Parent. Read more…

SMR Break Apart – Breaks Apart a symbol, containing a Smart Magnet Rig inside. Read more…

SMRize Parented – Converts an existing hierarchy of Parented Layers into a Smart Magnet Rig. The initial selection has to include all symbols of the PL hierarchy, either on the Stage or in the Timeline. Read more…

IK Clean Up* – Cleans Up Classic Tweens, solving the IK chains by creating Keyframes for every frame of the tweened elements. Initial selection must be one SMR IK Effector. Read more…

Element Welder for KineFlex transformations – Welds the selected elements of a Smart Magnet Rig to their parents. Requires one or more selected element(s) on the Stage. Read more…

Make Edaptable – Matches the positions of Transformation and Registration points, so that the elements can be rigged as a Smart Magnet Rig. Read more…

Roll Over Rig info – Rolls Over Rig info (SMR metadata) to the left or right of the current Keyframe. Requires a Keyframe selection. Read more…

Edit M Targets – Launches the Inspect / Edit Magnet Targets dialog. A Magnet Target has to be selected for inspection. Read more…

Remove Rig info – Removes Smart Magnet Rig metadata (Rig info) from the selected elements. Read more…

KineFlex Switch* – Switches between the two KineFlex modes of direct manipulation of SMR elements, when [ Alt+Shift ] modifier keys are held down – Frame Scrub or Squash & Stretch. Read more…

License Manager – Displays EDAPT License Manager. Read more…

[ ··· ] – Opens SMR Helpers Settings dialog.

Notes

All EDAPT Objects, such as Magnet Targets, Center Markers, SMR Effectors and so on are placed inside a Library folder called EDAPT objects.

Do not rename, move or delete this folder. It should always stay in Library's root. 

Video demonstration


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Comments

I keep getting an error message that says "d cannot be defined" on line 174 in the EDAPT Loader script whenever I try to open the SMR Helpers panel. I tried re-downloading and reinstalling the EDAPT plugin, but it runs into the same issue.

Hello Nick, I had to update my Animate software and when I opened it and added EDAPT powertools, I apparently on't have the Premium features anymore. How can I upgrade if I already have the license?

Hi Aaron,

First make sure that your version of Animate is supported (at present AA 21–24):
https://flash-powertools.com/supported-versions-of-flash-and-animate/

Then just use your License Key and activate following the usual procedures:
https://flash-powertools.com/edap-tools-premium/#installation

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