Maya Control Curve Kit | Auto Naming + Groups + Hierarchy + Constraints

ZF CONTROL CURVE KIT V3.0

A versatile and artist-friendly Maya rigging tool for creating and editing control curves, which includes automatic naming, group creation, hierarchy setup and constraining.

FEATURES:

🟥CREATE:

• Create control curves at the selected object's positions with automatic naming. Naming convetions can be customized.
• Automatically create freeze and offset groups.
• Automatically build a curve hierarchy matching the selected joint chain.
• Automatically constrain the control curves to selected joints or objects. ( parent - scale - point - orient )
• Choose from 64+ shapes or use your custom curve.
• Automatically create a set for newly created controls.

🟥EDIT:

• Edit colours with RGB or INDEX colour swatches or through the colour widget.
• Lock & hide or unlock & unhide Channel Box attributes.
• Instantly edit size, orientation and line width.
• Easily edit the display type: normal, reference or template.
• Replace the shapes of existing curves.
  

🟥EXTRAS & SHORTCUT BUTTONS:

• Select all the visible joints in the scene.
• Get the hierarchy of a selection.
• Make curve from poly edges.
• Create joint at the center of each selected object.
• Select all control curves in the scene.
• Extra Shape Library to import special curves such as Eye, Foot, Paw controls.
  

Example auto-rename result:

Selection: Head_JNT | Result: Head_CTRL → Head_CTRL_OFFSET → Head_CTRL_GRP

Selection: Foot | Result: Foot_CTRL → Foot_CTRL_OFFSET → Foot_CTRL_GRP

By enabling the Customize checkbox, you can override these default suffixes with your own. You can also assign a new base name, and the tool will auto-number it. (e.g. NewName_01, NewName_02, etc. )

For installation follow the instructions in the "readme" file.

Compatibility: Autodesk Maya 2022 and newer versions.

Feel free to reach out for any issues or requests regarding the tool. :)