So I needed to mirror a blendshape again, and didn't want to do it manually, so (as usual) my first impulse was to write a script to do it... but this time, I actually did the smart thing, and just checked highend3d for one.
I found a bunch, of course. And settled on this one - ntMirrorBlendShape by Nelson Teixeira - solely because it had the most downloads. It does exactly what I needed, though, so thanks Nelson!
However, my pull to write my own solution - even in cases such as this where the smarter option is clearly to use existing code - never seems to go away. For instance, I inevitably find myself wanting features not already present - in this case, topological symmetry, ala that in Mudbox / Silo / Zbrush. (And, in this case, it wouldn't be that hard to implement, since I've already written code that does the hard part - topological matching of two non-mirrored meshes - that I originally wrote to fix cases where vert order somehow got messed up. Adapting it for use with symmetry should be pretty simple...) Or mirroring across axes other than X. Never mind that I don't actually NEED those features to solve my initial problem... the itch persists.
For now, I've been able to remind myself that time is of the essence - I really need to finish up my demo reel - but I know the problem will pop up again at some point. Do you think anyone makes some sort of soothing spray for Scripter's Itch?
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