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Zoo Tools Pro
Zoo Tools for Maya is a comprehensive toolkit designed to enhance the functionality and workflow of Autodesk Maya, a popular 3D animation and modeling software. Developed by Hamish McKenzie, Zoo Tools aims to streamline and simplify various tasks, providing artists and animators with a collection of powerful tools and scripts. This toolkit offers a wide range of features, including rigging and animation tools, modeling and asset management tools, UI enhancements, workflow automation, and more.
With Zoo Tools, artists can significantly speed up their workflow, improve efficiency, and focus more on creative aspects rather than complex technicalities. This robust toolkit has gained popularity among Maya users, empowering them with an extensive set of tools to create high-quality animations, rigging setups, and models in a more efficient and intuitive manner. See more Chaos Phoenix for Maya
Features
- Rigging Tools: The toolkit provides a variety of rigging tools, including advanced spine rigs, FK/IK switch setups, spline IK, stretchy joints, and more. These tools simplify the rigging process and enable artists to create complex character rigs efficiently.
- Animation Tools: offers a range of animation tools, such as pose libraries, animation layers, automatic keyframe cleanup, and animation mirroring. These tools aid in creating and managing character animations with greater control and flexibility.
- Asset Management: includes features for asset management, allowing users to organize, browse, and load assets directly within Maya. It provides a versatile asset browser, quick loading and referencing options, and asset metadata management, which helps artists stay organized and work efficiently on large-scale projects.
- UI Enhancements: The toolkit enhances the Maya user interface with numerous user-friendly enhancements. It introduces customizable marking menus, additional shelf tools, improved viewport controls, and streamlined UI layouts for a more efficient and personalized Maya experience.
- Workflow Automation: automates repetitive tasks with features like the “Quick Setup” system, which allows for the rapid creation of common rigs or animation setups. It also provides a comprehensive hotkey manager and a marking menu editor to customize workflows and increase productivity.
- Modeling Tools: offers a set of modeling tools, including procedural modeling options, shape merging and combining features, geometry cleanup tools, and more. These tools aid in creating and manipulating 3D models within Maya with enhanced efficiency and precision.
System requirements
- Configure according to the installed Maya 2017 – 2025
- Operating System: Windows 7/8 / 8.1 / 10/11
- Memory (RAM): Requires 1 GB of RAM.
- Hard disk space: 1 GB of free space required.
- Processor: Intel Dual Core processor or higher.
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How to install Zoo Tools Pro
- Install Autodesk Maya First
- Open Maya and Drag that file “dragdropinstall.py” in to Maya
- Click Install
- Apply to all Plugins in this location > Click Allow
- Just use
