mhIsolate

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mhIsolate tool is an efficient tool designed for Maya that allows you to isolate objects or assets in a model panel. With this tool, you can quickly and easily focus on just the main focus of your animation, making it easier to work on specific details of your project. By isolating objects, you can speed up your Maya scene, as it helps to reduce clutter and makes it easier to work on specific assets without distractions.

• Item - This works just like Maya's Isolate, as it will only isolate the selected objects and their children.
• Asset - This one works a bit differently from the normal isolate. This will not isolate just the selected objects and their children but will isolate from the top node of an object causing everything under that node to be isolated. This then will cause the "asset" to be isolated. Great to use when you want to isolate a rig (character, prop, vehicle, etc...)

The mhIsolate tool is particularly useful for complex scenes that contain a large number of objects or assets. By isolating objects, you can simplify your workspace and focus on the details that matter.

This tool also has a few extra features depending on what panel you are hovering over.

• Outliner - If the mouse is hovering over the Outliner, all the modelPanels will isolate what is selected. If nothing is selected, then the isolation is turned off and everything is viewed in all modelPanels.

  

• GraphEditor - If the mouse is hovering over the graphEditor and a curve(s) is selected, it will first isolate all the curve(s) on the object (selecting only the objects that have the selected curves). If the object(s) is already isolated, running the tool again will isolate just the selected curve/s. If nothing is selected, then every curve is shown.

  

It's recommended that these tools be used as hotkeys as the tools use the current location of the mouse.

TROUBLESHOOT

If you have the error "Unrecognized File Type", you need to update your Maya. Maya 2017 doesn't support drag & drop

You will have to manually move the mhIsolate folder into the maya/scripts folder.

After you have added the files to the maya/scripts you can add this code to the Maya scriptEditor in a Python tab and it will open the tool window.

from mhIsolate import launcher
launcher.window()

Missing Files

When installing more than one of the mhAnimTools at a time you might get an error saying Missing Files. You will need to restart Maya and install the tool that was not working.