improvements to the custom shapes for eye bones on Daz rig

The custom shapes for the eyes are all positioned at the head of each individual bone, which results in a difficult to use blob of overlapping shapes in the middle of the eye:

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The positioning of the bones - which I assume is determined by Daz - is kind of unfortunate, and so there’s not a lot that can be done about this situation without moving the bones around:

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However, I have tweaked some parameters on the custom shapes display for each bone, and I think it looks a bit nicer. Still not ideal, but it’s better than a blob in the middle, and you can more easily select each bone as desired without having to alt-click or anything:

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I figure it probably helps to have these adjustments written out in code format, and since I’ve been playing with bpy lately, here’s what I came up with:

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for bone_name in ['lEye', 'rEye']:
    bone = rig.pose.bones[bone_name]
    bone.custom_shape_translation.y = 0.017
for bone_name in ['lEyelidOuter', 'rEyelidOuter']:
    bone = rig.pose.bones[bone_name]
    bone.custom_shape_translation.y = 0.016
    bone.custom_shape_scale_xyz = [0.5, 1.0, 0.5]
for bone_name in ['lEyelidInner', 'rEyelidInner']:
    bone = rig.pose.bones[bone_name]
    bone.custom_shape_translation.y = 0.021
    bone.custom_shape_scale_xyz = [0.5, 1.0, 0.5]
for bone_name in [
    'lEyelidLowerInner', 'lEyelidLower', 'lEyelidLowerOuter',
    'lEyelidUpperInner', 'lEyelidUpper', 'lEyelidUpperOuter',
    'rEyelidLowerInner', 'rEyelidLower', 'rEyelidLowerOuter',
    'rEyelidUpperInner', 'rEyelidUpper', 'rEyelidUpperOuter',
]:
    bone = rig.pose.bones[bone_name]
    bone.custom_shape_translation.y = 0.019
    bone.custom_shape_scale_xyz = [0.25, 1.0, 0.25]

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