its not a valued that is stored anyplace. the common practice is to check the position of the children. this will help to determine what it is as most should be offset on only 1 axis
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:25 PM, flaye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The reason I want to do this is to be able to measure the overall length > of a joint chain. As far as I can tell, if the absolute values of the > primary axis are all added up in a joint chain, regardless of how bent it > is, you'll get the full chain length. I'm trying to automatically figure > that out, rather than have the user enter the primary axis manually through > a GUI or command. > > If there's a better way to do so, maybe even through some API nodes, I'll > be happy to hear about it. > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/7834a76c-3cda-4aad-a394-15a729daed3d%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/7834a76c-3cda-4aad-a394-15a729daed3d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Todd Widup Creature TD / Technical Artist [email protected] [email protected] www.toddwidup.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CABBPk37HiCpsvzgCi8QDFnRn-Pgyg%3Dpupj%2BxC6X7cW5G54Lbiw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
