If you already did an animation of your character making one step, save that animation first as a new animation in Studio Library similarly to how you made mirror table, now double-click the thumbnail of the mirror table you just made (or click it once and hit Apply) and it's going to mirror the first step. This will be used by the plugin to know how to flip your animation. First put your character in a bind pose, select your rig, right-click on the Studio Library window and create 'mirror table' (fill out the options that appear ofc). And is there a tool for mirroring fk animations? All I've seen seems to only be aimed at IK controls.ĮDIT: If anyone else is looking for a way to mirror poses, I found out about this great free plugin (just place it in your Maya scripts folder like any other script and write import studiolibrary studiolibrary.main() into Maya's script editor for Python).

If someone can suggest the best plugin used for mirroring animations, I'm all ears. Am I missing something? Because I can't believe something this stupid passes for 'walk cycle control'. But apparently the expected workflow for this is to spell out to her one by one where each controller is every single time you want to copy a pose and then the tool basically works like a pose flipper instead of mirroring the whole animation. Finally a tool that does this simple task'. My first thought was 'Oh, I just put in which limb is which and Maya understands where it needs to place mirrored keys. I hate mirroring a walk cycle (I generally do it by copy-pasting curves, which works only half the time) so I've been trying out Maya Bonus Tools' Walk Cycle Control.

Maya walk cycle