I'm so excited to see how this develops! I saw a good bit of it at Siggraph (spent the day at Fabric Engine) and it looked pretty incredible.
On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 11:30:55 AM UTC-6, Eric Thivierge wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm excited to announce that we have released version 1.1.0 of the Kraken > Rigging Framework. This is our second release which mainly focused on UI / > UX work and also updating the system to work with Fabric Engine 2.0 and > higher. > > Kraken is a cross-platform Rigging Framework that provides a flexible, > customizable and extendable framework. Kraken leverages Fabric Engine’s > Splice / Canvas API to maintain consistent evaluation of solvers and > deformers. Kraken’s abstracted Python graph provides a layer where complex > rigs are defined, with which DCC plug-ins translate into DCC specific build > instructions then scene elements are output. > > > Download here: > http://fabric-engine.github.io/Kraken/#download > > Installation Tutorial: > https://vimeo.com/151921771 > > Release notes here: > > http://kraken-rigging-framework.readthedocs.org/en/1.1.0/release_notes.html#version-1-1-0 > > > With the update to use Fabric 2.0, users are now able to construct solvers > using the Canvas interface. Users who are familiar with Softimage's ICE > interface should feel at home using Canvas for creating solvers using a > nodal interface. Those solvers can then be exported as presets and be added > to Kraken's Python based rig components. We still support solvers written > in Fabric Engine's scripting language KL, too. You now get the best of both > worlds. > > We're eager to expand the community and encourage people do give it a spin > and provide feedback. We've gotten some great feedback recently and the > great folks over at Oculus Story Studio have had significant interest and > have already contributed back to the project. Looking forward to others > joining the community. > > You can also read a bit more about what we've been working on and where we > are heading in the preview blog post we wrote up last week here: > http://fabricengine.com/kraken-1-1-update/ > > > Visit the Kraken web site and forum at the following links: > http://fabric-engine.github.io/Kraken > > http://forums.fabricengine.com/categories/kraken > > > Thanks! > > -------------------------------------------- > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/b71325f6-d6d3-4f77-9d36-c8d5bcb7a151%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
