Christopher Knappers

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What's "Pattern" for a selection set and how to use it? Dec. 21, 2023, 2:08 p.m.

Hello, if you expand a set you have created you are able to see a hierarchy of controls inside with the character name, rig name, and the control names under each rig. In this context "item" refers to a row in the tree corresponding to a character, rig, or control name. Doubling clicking on one of these items will let you rename it which can be used as a way to manually change the controls contained in a set. One option while renaming is to supply a pattern. For example, if you change the character name from "mychar.char" to "*.char" then that subtree underneath the character item will now apply to every character matching the pattern. The same can also be done with rig or control items in the tree, for example you could rename a control "wrist_*" to match both "wrist_l" and "wrist_r".