Thanks very much Chad -- I'll give these a try.
P
On Jul 24, 9:51 pm, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
> pymel gathers a lot of api info behind the scenes. the names of these
> methods are still in flux, but they are useful for prototyping:
>
> PyNode('persp').__apimdagpath__()
> # Result: <maya.OpenMaya.MDagPath; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'MDagPath
> *' at 0x7ffa3b555640> > #
> p=PyNode('persp')
> p.__apimdagpath__()
> # Result: <maya.OpenMaya.MDagPath; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'MDagPath
> *' at 0x13dc560> > #
> p.__apimobject__()
> # Result: <maya.OpenMaya.MObject; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'MObject *'
> at 0xd530a50> > #
>
> -chad
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM, pjrich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When getting the dag path via python to pass it to an OpenMaya
> > function, this seems to be the way it's done:
>
> > ### get dag of selected object
> > import maya.OpenMaya as api
>
> > def nameToDag( name ):
> > sel = api.MSelectionList()
> > sel.add( name )
> > node = api.MDagPath()
> > sel.getDagPath( 0, node )
> > return node
>
> > objectName = selected()[0].longName()
> > dag = nameToDag( objectName )
> > ###
>
> > And then I can use that with other OpenMaya modules like so:
>
> > meshFn = api.MFnMesh()
> > meshFn.setObject( dag )
>
> > ...it works, but is this really the best way to do this? Is there any
> > way to pass the path directly to the MFnMesh object? Is there any
> > shortcut with Pymel?
>
> > Thanks!
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