Maya Pipeline Tool · v0.2.0 — Production Ready
AXE
Proxy
Tired of wrestling with tiny overlapping rig curves? AXE Proxy puts clean, selectable fills over your controls — hover to reveal, click to select, rig completely untouched.
01 / How It Works
Hover. Click.
Done.
Select your controls
Pick any set of nurbs curve controls in your rig — body, face, hands. Works with any mGear rig or standard nurbs-based setup.
Build the proxy layer
AXE Proxy reads each curve's shape, color, and position and builds a flat fill mesh directly over it. No changes to the rig — ever.
Hide the curves
Optionally hide the original nurbs curves. Proxies stay fully selectable. Your viewport is clean.
Animate normally
Hover over a proxy to reveal it. Click and the real rig control gets selected — transparently, with no redirect delay. Shift-click works. Everything works.
02 / Features
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Proximity Reveal
Proxies fade in as your cursor approaches. Invisible at idle, present when you need them. Zero viewport noise.
Transparent Selection
Click a proxy, get the real control. Shift-click, marquee, everything Maya selection tools do — it all works.
Non-Destructive
Proxy shapes live as sibling nodes on your rig transforms. Remove them and the rig is byte-for-byte identical to before.
Full Undo
Build, remove, hide curves — every operation is wrapped in a single undo chunk. Ctrl+Z works exactly as expected.
Named Sets
Group controls into Body, Face, Hand sets. Stored as Maya objectSets — they survive save, open, and referencing.
Referenced Rigs
Build proxies in the shot file, not the rig file. Works with any namespace. Selection redirect resolves paths automatically.
Color Accurate
Reads Maya's override color from each control — index or RGB — and fills the proxy with the correct color.
Selection Flash
A 120ms white flash on click confirms selection without ambiguity. Subtle enough to ignore, clear enough to trust.
Drag-to-Install
Drop the installer into the Maya viewport. Python package, .mll, module descriptor, and shelf button — all in one shot.
03 / Named Sets
Group once.
Rebuild anywhere.
Named sets let you define Body, Face, or any custom group of controls once. After that, one click selects them all — ready to rebuild, ready to hand to another animator.
Sets are stored as Maya objectSet nodes. They live in the scene, survive save and reopen, and work correctly with referenced rigs regardless of namespace.
A Master set is built automatically every time you proxy controls — every control you've ever built gets tracked there without any extra steps.
04 / Specifications
What it
runs on.
Built and used in production at Long Winter Studios.
Get AXE
Proxy.
One-time purchase. Drag-and-drop install. Build your picker in minutes.
Get Access · $20 →One-time purchase · Windows & macOS · Maya 2023–2026