Building a Pose Reader in Maya Using Nodes

Marco Giordano shows how to build a pose reader in Maya using available Maya Nodes. A Pose Reader is something that will allow you to read a pose angle of joints or nodes, and find out how close or how far you are from that target position. With this, you are able to drive parts of your rig or blendShapes in Maya with this information, for basic pose driven deformations.

in this tutorial I am going to show you how to build a basic pose reader with maya nodes

Marco notes that if you want more informtaion on a poseReader for Maya and what it does, you can check out Michael Comet’s PoseDeformer and PoseReader here, where you can download a Pose Reader plugin for Maya. Here Marco shows how to create the same thing solely using Maya Nodes.