Thanks a lot for pointing this out. In the end I just kept the weights outside the compound :) Still good to know!!
seb On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Judah Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > Short of writing a custom widget, or reworking the channel box code, I > don't think it's possible. We ran into something similar, so we looked at > how factory constraints are handled, because they are doing essentially the > same thing: when you animate a weight on a constraint, that weight is a > child attribute of a multi/compound, yet does appear in the channel box. > What is actually happening is a new top level [interface] attribute is added > to the constraint node and it drives the actual attribute used in the > constraint node's compute. This newly added attribut is the one you see in > the channel box. If you look carefully in the hypergraph you can see the > node's connection to itself at the top of the node icon. Not a pretty > solution, but I'm not sure there's a better one. > > -Judah > > > On Saturday, August 27, 2011, Sebastian Schoellhammer < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hallo! > > > > is it possible to display a compound child attribute in the channelBox? > > > > I made it keyable, I made the compound keyable and set them all > .setChannelBox(true); but still it won't show up. > > > > This is for a weight value for my blendShape deformer. > > All the data is grouped below a "target" compound but I would like the > user to be able to access the weight attribute while working. > > > > In the end I made the weights a separate array attribute next to the > target compound one which works but is not as neat I thought.. > > > > Thanks for any hints! > > > > seb > > > > -- > > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > > > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
