Upgrade Requirements for HumanIK 2013

This section describes all the changes you must make to your existing code in order to upgrade to each 2013.x release from the previous release.

Note that if you are not upgrading from the release immediately preceding this one, you may also need to follow the steps listed in the upgrade requirements for the intermediate releases.

2013.2

No code changes are required to upgrade to this release.

2013.1

Squash 'n' Stretch translation

The character properties HIKSnSSpineFreedom and HIKSnSNeckFreedom have been removed. To tune the freedom of the Squash 'n' Stretch system, use instead the new API functions HIKSetTranslationLimitsf() and HIKSetTranslationLimitsd().

2013

New Licensing System

A Gameware license key is required to use HumanIK.

For details, see Setting Up the License Key.

Characterization Tool packaging

The different flavors of the Characterization Tool that ship with HumanIK no longer have their own installers. Instead, they are included in sub-directories directly within the tools directory of the main HumanIK package.

In addition, the installation process for the Maya Character Tool has changed. See the documentation accompanying the tool for details.