p3tools is built upon the knowledge gathered over years of experience in asset development in Maya. It consists of many small helper tools like renamer, mirror joints, etc. as well as some of the advanced tools and commands that will make your workflow better and faster. All the functionality of the tools can be accessed via API which gives you the opportunity to expand your own tools library and automate your workflow in a way that suits your need.
Following are only some of the examples of the tools that comes with p3tools.
p3tools Menu Bar
p3tools comes with an elegant menu bar that gives you quick access to the tools you need.
Replace Influence Weights
Transfer skin from source joint to target joint, between same or different geometry.
SoftMod To Skin Converter
converts softmod deformer weights to skin weights.
Copy Skin Nurbs To Poly
Copy skinning from nurbs surface to polygon meshes.
Delta Mush To Skin
Convert Delta mush deformer to skin. As Maya’s bake deformer is pretty unreliable, this tool provides a perfect solution to create a solid foundation weights.
p3deformerToSkin command
All of the deformer to skin converter are using p3deformerToSkin command written in c++. You can create your own tool to and convert any deformer to skin cluster using this command.
cmds.p3deformerToSkin(dg=dstGeo, di=infs, ds=clsts, sg=srcGeo, si=ctrls, sti=static, us=static and True or False)Copy/Mirror/Import/Export SetDriven Keys
Easily Copy or Mirror or Export or import Set Driven Key..
Copy/Mirror/Import/Export NurbsCurve Shapes
Easily Copy or Mirror, Export and import NurbsCurve shape data.
p3twoBoneIk Solver
p3twoBoneIk Solver provides you with elegant ik solver for limbs with built in features like stretchy, softIk, global scale, etc.
PolyConstraint
Attaches transform objects to the polygon meshes. No UV required.
Curve Constraint
Attaches transform objects to the curves. You can specify NurbsSurface as the worldUpObject and control the twist of the each object.
Angle Driver
The industry favorite alternative to poseSpaceDeformer, Helps you drive your corrective joints