Roman Salnikov – Flux Anim Tools

Spend less time on technical hurdles and more time animating. Flux Anim Tools is a robust, production-ready Python plugin for Autodesk Maya designed to eliminate the most tedious tasks in a 3D animator’s daily workflow. From mathematically flawless overlaps to dynamic Center of Mass calculations, Flux is built to be fast, reliable, and incredibly intuitive.

What You’ll Learn In Flux Anim Tools

• Dynamic Center of Mass (COM) System: Calculate a physically accurate COM based on custom body-part weights. Easily link your IK/FK controllers to a master COM locator, animate the weight shifts, and seamlessly bake the motion back to your rig. Smart caching remembers your UI inputs, and it safely handles objects with locked channels (like Pole Vectors) without breaking.
• Smart Overlap & Follow-Through: Generate buttery-smooth overlapping action on tails, chains, or spines with a single click. Powered by advanced vector-math, this tool completely prevents Z-axis flipping (Gimbal Lock). The Smart Hierarchy mode perfectly isolates your NURBS controllers, ignoring underlying joints or meshes so your setup stays clean.
• Advanced Link & Pivot System: Create temporary Parent, Orient, or Pivot constraints on the fly. Flux automatically calculates the exact bounding box of your controllers, generating Smart Locators that perfectly match the size of your objects—no more giant locators blocking your viewport!
• Instant Temp IK: Need to plant a foot or an arm that is currently in FK? Turn any 3-joint FK chain into a fully functional temporary IK setup (with Pole Vectors) in seconds. Animate, bake, and delete without losing a single frame of your original motion.
• Physics-Based Bounce: Add procedural, physics-driven jiggle to any controller. Tweak Force, Stiffness, and Damping via a custom UI bone, then bake the procedural motion directly into clean animation curves.
• Hierarchy Space Switchers Use the World, Nest, Reverse, and Bridge tools to change parent spaces on the fly. Flux handles all the complex baking behind the scenes to perfectly preserve your world-space animation.
• Essential Helpers

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