It would still keep the animation channel. Just makes it no longer addressable 
for keying in the channel box. I can still key it in the curve editor even with 
it not keyable.


On Nov 26, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Josh Carey wrote:

> You probably don't want to toggle the keyable status... What if the animator 
> has keys on that attr?  I don't know off the top of my head if Maya would 
> keep those keys or not. 
> On Nov 26, 2012 11:11 AM, "Justin Israel" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I feel like an expression may not be the best spot for this functionality. 
> Wouldn't that imply that it would only get evaluated when the time changes or 
> the node is dirty? It seems to me what you want is a trigger that reacts to 
> actually changing your "fkik" setting.
> 
> A script job probably suits the situation better:
> 
> ##
> def toggleStuff():
>     val = cmds.getAttr('legCtrl1.fkik')
>     if val == 0:
>         cmds.setAttr('legCtrl1.tx', k=False)
>     elif val == 1:
>         cmds.setAttr('legCtrl1.tx', k=True)
>         
> jobId = cmds.scriptJob(attributeChange=['legCtrl1.fkik', toggleStuff])
> ##
> 
> This will immediately react to the change of your fkik attribute, and run a 
> python function that can check and change your attributes.
> 
> -- justin
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Berg Jones wrote:
> 
>> I have one control that I'm using to control FK/IK on a leg. I dont want to 
>> have one for IK and one for FK because it gets confusing. Right now I have 
>> reverse foot roll and translate attributes that I want to hide when I'm in 
>> FK mode and vice versa.
>> 
>> Heres the expression in question that will  disable translateX but wont 
>> unhide switch into IK.
>> 
>> Thanks!!!!
>> 
>> import maya.cmds as cmds 
>> import maya.mel as mel
>> 
>> mel.eval('proc hideStuff(){setAttr -k 0 "legCtrl1.tx";}')
>> mel.eval('proc showStuff(){setAttr -k 1 "legCtrl1.tx";}')
>> 
>> myExpr = '''
>> if (legCtrl1.fkik == 0)
>> {
>>     hideStuff();
>> }
>> 
>> else if (legCtrl1.fkik == 1)
>> {
>>     showStuff();
>> }
>> '''
>> 
>> cmds.expression(string=myExpr)
>> 
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