The Digit Manager provides controls for posing the digits on a palm procedurally. The Digit Manager rollout appears on the Motion panel for a selected palm with one or more digits, although it’s most useful with palms that have multiple digits.
To access the Digit Manager rollout:
By default, a newly created palm has no digits; to use the Digit Manager, you need to add some.
The Digit Manager rollout includes two groups: Preset Poses and Digit Modifiers.
The Preset Poses list holds digit poses. A digit pose comprises the rotations for all digit bones on the palm or ankle. With the controls in this group you can save pose presets and then load them onto any other palm.
If the palm to which you apply a pose has fewer digits than those of the pose preset, the extra digits are ignored. If the palm has more digits, the extra digits receive no rotation data.
You can weight a pose preset, blending from one pose to another or mixing poses to create a new preset.
To apply a preset to the selected palm without blending, double-click its name in the list.
To blend a preset, select the palm, click a preset pose in the list once to highlight it, and then adjust the Weight value upward.
You can use the Save As dialog to save poses in a different location, but they won’t then appear in the Preset Poses list.
The Digit Modifiers group provides tools to enable you to manipulate the digits, either singly or as a group. You can transform selected digits parametrically with the Spread, Bend, Roll, and Curl controls.