Working with proxies

Proxy transformations (world space translations and rotations) are saved in a user-specified json file.

To save proxy data to a file, build a character, transform proxies as desired, then call the character's saveProxyTransformations() method. This takes in a file path to save the data to.

To load proxy data from a file, use the useSavedProxyData and proxyDataFile arguments in the build() method. useSavedProxyData defaults to False and means that proxies will be built using their default transformation values.

The overall workflow might look like this:

Build the character

character = ExampleCharacter()
character.build()

Then, manually transform the proxies as desired and save their positions.

character = ExampleCharacter()
proxyDataFile = "C:/path/to/proxyData.json"

character.saveProxyTransformations(proxyDataFile)

Then, load the proxy data and build the character again.

character = ExampleCharacter()
proxyDataFile = "C:/path/to/proxyData.json"

character.build(useSavedProxyData=True, proxyDataFile=proxyDataFile)

I usually like to have both the save and build commands in the same file, which I can toggle on and off by commenting/uncommenting the lines.

character = ExampleCharacter()
proxyDataFile = "C:/path/to/proxyData.json"

character.build(usedSavedProxyData=True, proxyDataFile=proxyDataFile)
# character.saveProxyTransformations(proxyDataFile)