thank you paul, your snappy answer helped me a lot... E.Ozgur Yilmaz Lead Technical Director www.ozgurfx.com
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]>wrote: > It would seem that the connection between the option variable, > 'workingUnitTime', and the actual time unit used, set by > currentUnit(t='pal'), is rather loose. There exists a mel function, > mel.syncPreferencesOptVars('syncCurrentToOpt'), which will update the > unit settings to match the option var (or vice-versa with > mel.syncPreferencesOptVars('syncOptToCurrent') ), but it doesn't do > everything that changing it from the preferences GUI will (such as > updating the time slider ranges). The stuff that the gui does can be > found in the prefsSyncSettings mel proc, in > $MAYA_LOCATION/scripts/startup/createPrefWndUI.mel. (You can find > that out, by the way, by switching on the History>>Echo All Commands > option from the script editor window, than changing the setting from > the gui.) > > Also - note that currentTime has an 'updateAnimation' flag, which > will change keys so that they stay at the same time (but a different > frame number)... I think it's on by default. > > - Paul > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Ozgur Yılmaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > a quick question, how can I set the working time unit (fps) by using > pymel? > > If you answer is "use pymel.optionVar['workingUnitTime'] = 'pal' " it is > > just changing the optionVar, but not effecting the settings, as far as I > > see... there should be some command that updates the environment > according > > to the optionVar settings... > > > > I also used optionVars while updating the playblast file name, it also > was > > not recognized until I open up the playblast options. > > > > so any ideas? > > > > E.Ozgur Yilmaz > > Lead Technical Director > > www.ozgurfx.com > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
