Hi all:
Last weekend while navigating through a couple of prop rigs i did some time ago, i realized that wherever i need to make an object auto-rotate properly, i use expressions all the time in order do the math stuff. For instance, storing previous world space positions and previous rotations. So finally i decided to spend my saturday morning developing a custom node to do the job.
Here is the result:
autoRotate is a C++ custom Autodesk Maya MPxNode that calculates the rotation in degrees based on world space delta movement, radius, global scale and movement axis.
Although simple i found out that it is really useful in several situations as the ones shown in the examples. Moreover, it simplifies the setup and avoid the use of expressions.
Hope you like it!!