findRelatedSkinCluster nice thanks Ryan this will do the trick Yury
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, ryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry I found out if you select the node that you instanced from that > prune weights works but if you select the node you did not instance > from it does not. Wierd. Maya does not always account for this kind of > stuff. You can get around this though by writing your own command: > > getShape = cmds.listRelatives("pSphere1", shapes=True) > parents = cmds.listRelatives(getShape[0], allParents=True) > for p in parents: > skin = mel.eval("findRelatedSkinCluster(\"" + p + "\");") > if cmds.objExists(skin): > print p, "is the transform that is skinned" > > > On Mar 12, 5:06 pm, ryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Works for me. The skin is applied to the shape and there is only one > > shape node parented to two transforms. I pruned weights and that > > worked too. Got an example file you want to send me? I'm under your > > same NDA ;o) > > > > On Mar 12, 4:52 pm, yury nedelin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > right that's all good but here is were i am confused, > > > > > so you have > > > getShape[0] and 2 parents, let say sphere1 and sphere2 . > > > > > Skin sphere1 to a joint now your getShape[0] skinned. > > > > > Try pruning weights with Maya tool in Edit Smooth Skin on both sphere1 > and > > > sphere2, and shapes. > > > > > How can I tell which one is actually skinned and which is not? Since > it's > > > the same shape and its skinned then is should not matter but it does. > > > > > Yury > > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, ryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > If shape has two parent transforms it must be an instance right? > > > > > > import maya.cmds as cmds > > > > > > sphere = cmds.polySphere() > > > > cmds.instance(sphere) > > > > > > getShape = cmds.listRelatives(sphere, shapes=True) > > > > parents = cmds.listRelatives(getShape[0], allParents=True) > > > > if len(parents) > 1: > > > > print getShape[0], "is an instance" > > > > > > RyanT > > > > Technical Artist > > > >www.rtrowbridge.com/blog > > > > NaughtyDog Inc. > > > > > > On Mar 12, 4:21 pm, yury nedelin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hi this is not really python specific but > > > > > > > what i a nice way to tell if object is an instance with mel/python? > > > > > > > Yury > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
