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When it comes to math, sometimes is hard to visualize what you are doing, if you are working with vectors and transformations the debugging process can be slow and tedious, you cannot even use primitives to trace positions and rotations if you are writing scripted operators.
My workflow was to write quick run-once scripts in the [...]

In my endless search for the best language to script my rigs, sometimes I discover new features of the languages I already use.
It happened again a few days ago, while I was reading through MSDN’s JScript reference to see why the “import” statement is protected, hoping again to find an include-like functionality that every JScript [...]

Usually the common behavior for a character TD is to create rigs in a visual way: pressing buttons, dragging and dropping relationships and so on. Unfortunately this is the most diffused way to approach character rigging, it leads to a few issues and surprisingly, it could be the wrong way to go.
Once a character rig [...]