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Mastering Deformation Layers with the Maya API

High-performance skin weight export with OpenMaya: sparse data compression and managing the deformation stack.

Matrix nodes, UV pins and Python for automatic membrane folding.

Sparse weight data, compression, and the deformation stack.

The full script and why OpenMaya beats cmds for weight I/O.