CA Fingers

Creates cartoon fingers with control over the number of fingers and each finger joints count.

Guides:

• ‘Sub Parent’ – Helps move all the guides together. This guide’s position is not used by the rig.
• ‘Aim Guides’ – Each finger joints positions, starting at the metacarpal and ending at the fingertip.
• ‘Direction guides’ – If the attribute ‘Along Direction Guide’ is checked, the finger zeroed pose will align it along this guide’s orientations.

Attributes:

1. ‘Single Side Guide’ – For some Aim Guides, the ‘side_vector’ (twist) is locked and driven by a single ‘side_vector’, which keeps the orientation consistent. Uncheck this attribute to unlock them if you need more control over the twist. Re-template is required when changes are made. [Video]
2. ‘Ctrls Scale’ – Scale all the node ctrls. Note that the attachments ‘Ctrls Settings’ and ‘CtrlsShape’ will override this.
   [As of version 1.06.03]  ‘Update’ button to change the ctrls size without requiring a rebuild. [Video] 
3. ‘Clean Transformations’ – If checked, the zeroed pose will be the same as the bind pose; if unchecked, when zeroing the ctrls, they will align with a world axis specified in the following two attributes. [Video]
4. ‘Along Direction Guide’ – When checked, the zeroed pose of the fingers will be along the orientations of the direction guides. [Video]
5. ‘World Orientation’ – The world axis the ctrls will align with when zeroed. Usually, this attribute’s default value is the correct value. [Video] 
6. ‘Expose RotateOrder’ – Exposes all the ctrls ‘RotateOrder’ attribute in the Channel Box. [Video] 
7. ‘Fingers Count’ – The number of fingers to create (default is 4).
8. ‘Fingers Jnts Count’ – Number of joints/guides per finger (default is 5); includes metacarpal joint.
9. ‘Thumbs Count’ – The number of thumbs to create (default is 1). Thumbs behave differently than fingers.
10. ‘Thumbs Jnts Count’ – Number of joints/guides per thumb (default is 4).
11. ‘Ctrls Translate’ – If checked, animators will also be able to translate the FK ctrls.
12. ‘Scale Fix Jnts’ – Add extra skinning joints that do not scale with their ctrl, this prevents scaling vertices behind the joint in the wrong direction.
13. ‘Master Ctrl’ – Create a master control that animates all the fingers when rotated and scaled.
14. ‘Master Ctrl Offset’ – Position offset of the ‘master_ctrl’.

Connections:

• ‘Root Input’ – Drives all the fingers/thumbs.
• ‘Root Output’ – Output at ‘Root Input’

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