Sure. Feel free to update with more questions as you explore.
On Feb 9, 2014 11:47 AM, "flaye" <[email protected]> wrote:
> @Justin...Thank you very much for your detailed and informative reply.
> It's greatly appreciated.
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:05:01 PM UTC-5, flaye wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I come from a MEL background, and currently exploring the Python OOP
>> world. I'm trying to wrap my head around classes.
>>
>> This seems like a very simple issue to resolve, but I can't seem to get
>> the proper syntax to work. As an example, I want to create a module with
>> two classes. I want the second class (Spring) to grab the variable
>> information from the first one (Connector) and use it to build a new set of
>> locators with additional functionality to be attached to them. I've tried a
>> bunch of syntax combinations, but can't seem to get the handle on it. The
>> current Spring class is mangled, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> At the moment, it creates two sets of locators and curves, and gives the
>> following error:
>>
>> # Error: SetLoc() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>> # Traceback (most recent call last):
>> # File "<maya console>", line 4, in <module>
>> # File "C:/Users/.../Documents/maya/2014-x64/prefs/scripts\tgpMechanix.py",
>> line 53, in __init__
>> # self.SetSpring(locs)
>> # File "C:/Users/.../Documents/maya/2014-x64/prefs/scripts\tgpMechanix.py",
>> line 59, in SetSpring
>> # self.basePos=mc.move(0,25,0, locs(self.baseLoc))
>> # TypeError: SetLoc() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given) #
>>
>> Here's the current code:
>>
>> import maya.cmds as mc
>>
>> class Connector(object):
>> '''
>> This class will create a curve connector between two locators
>> '''
>> #initialize the class
>> def __init__(self):
>>
>>
>> self.SetLoc()
>>
>> def SetLoc(self):
>>
>> print "testing connector class"
>> #create locators
>> self.baseLoc=mc.spaceLocator(name="baseLoc", p=(0,0,0))[0]
>> self.topLoc=mc.spaceLocator(name="topLoc", p=(0,0,0))[0]
>>
>> #create the connecting curve
>> self.conCurve=mc.curve(name="conCurve", d=1, p=[(0,0,0),(0,0,0)])
>> mc.setAttr(self.conCurve+".template",1) #template the curve
>>
>> #create distanceNode
>> self.dNode=mc.createNode("distanceBetween")
>>
>> #position the locators
>> self.basePos=mc.move(0,0,0, self.baseLoc)
>> self.topPos=mc.move(0,10,0,self.topLoc)
>>
>> #connect the curve between the locators
>> mc.connectAttr(self.baseLoc+".t",self.conCurve+".cv[0]",
>> force=True)
>> mc.connectAttr(self.topLoc+".t",self.conCurve+".cv[1]",
>> force=True)
>>
>> #attach the distanceNode between the locators
>> mc.connectAttr(self.topLoc+".worldMatrix[0]",self.dNode+".
>> inMatrix1",force=True)
>> mc.connectAttr(self.baseLoc+".worldMatrix[0]",self.dNode+".
>> inMatrix2",force=True)
>>
>>
>>
>> #create new class to build spring using the locators from the Connector
>> class
>>
>> class Spring(Connector):
>> def __init__(self, *args):
>> super(Spring,self).__init__(*args)
>>
>> locs=Connector().SetLoc
>> self.SetSpring(locs)
>>
>> def SetSpring(self,locs):
>>
>> print "testing Spring class"
>> #position the locators
>> self.basePos=mc.move(0,25,0, locs(self.baseLoc))
>> self.topPos=mc.move(0,40,0,locs(self.topLoc))
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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