Our Motion Path tool is the ultimate solution for real-time visualization and editing of your animations in 3D space.

Features:

• Real-time motion path visualization
• Camera and world space draw modes
• Dockable GUI
• Optional key frames visualization
• Optional “Use Pivots” mode to take modified pivots into account
• Optional key frame tangents visualization
• Optional rotational key frame visualization
• For objects with incoming connections, such as constraints or set driven keys, a baked/non-editable path is shown.
• Lock selection
• Interactive switch for lock selection
• Motion path edit tool
• Motion path draw tool
• With the draw tool on, ctrl+click on a keyframe and drag to activate stroke mode. Closest: move the keys to the closest point on the drawn stroke; Spread: distributes keys uniformly along the drawn point
• Multiple buffer curves
• Buffer Curve to Nurb Curve feature
• Copy 3D key frames positions inside the Maya viewport
• World Paste 3D key frames positions onto other objects
• Offset Paste 3D key frames positions onto other objects
• Customizable settings, such as colors and sizes
• Motion Path settings are saved in maya preferences
• Stroke Mode (Ctrl + click a keyframe and drag with the draw context activated)

Known limitations:

• Please use Maya 2017 update 4 or the tool UI will freeze when docked in the Maya UI. Everything works as expected when the UI is not docked, even on earlier Maya updates.
• Frames display does not show correctly On Linux (Viewport 2.0 )
• Weighted paths won’t display aligned-correct curve tangents when drawing using world space mode. Weighted paths won’t displayed tangents in camera space mode.
• Key selection is not integrated fully with Maya undo, it won’t work in case of object deletions and similar actions.
• Marquee selection in the MotionPathEditContext does not work with keys.
• When locking selection, drawing the path for the locked object could be slow depending on the object hierarchy and connections.
• Lock selection mode could be quite slow depending on the hierarchy/network of the locked object.
• Rotational Keys are shown only in conjunction with one or more translation key frames.
• With animation layers a baked/non-editable path will be shown.
• Copy-Paste could not work as expected in some cases:
  – pasting keys on items with a different parent
  – when some world tangent info won’t be available from your source curves
  – when not copying all keys from the original curve
• Copy-Paste only copies translation values, it DOES NOT work with rotations.