Hi Justin,
Thanks for that tip. So I'm guessing then I don't need to append the
objects to the list?
>From this:
#self.ikHandles.append(allHandles)
# update ikHandle dictionary
self.dHandles[limbName]=self.ikHandles
self.IKrigJnts.append(IKjoints)
# update IK dictionary
self.dIkjnts[limbName]=self.IKrigJnts
to this?
self.dHandles[limbName]=allHandles
self.dIkjnts[limbName]=IKjoints
Thanks,
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:16:30 AM UTC-4, Justin Israel wrote:
>
> I didn't extensively examine your pastebin, but one thing that stands out
> is that you seem to be appending sets of lists to your ikHandles list, and
> then assigning that list as the value to every limbName in your dHandles
> dict:
>
> self.ikHandles.append(allHandles)
> self.dHandles[limbName]=self.ikHandles
>
> And you do the same for the other lists and dicts. So each limbName ends
> up referencing the entirely same list, if I am reading it correctly.
> Any reason to keep discreet lists and dicts instead of just dicts, where
> you manage the list of each dict key?
>
> self.ikHandles = {}
> ...
> self.ikHandles[limbName] = handles
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tWbLvYPTQ-Q/VDxf_Ci94aI/AAAAAAAAAgk/K0f5NEo_rM4/s1600/autoriggerUI.PNG>
>> I'd like to get your feedback to see if I'm approaching this correctly.
>>
>> I'm writing an autorigger that takes care of the GUI (calling an external
>> UI class) along with setting up the controls and attributes of the
>> different rig elements. I've also written a limb class that accepts the
>> selected objects from the autorigger and generates an IK/FK limb for either
>> legs or arms.
>>
>>
>>
>> Since both of those have basically the same setup (shoulder, elbow, wrist
>> and hip,knee,ankle), the limb class does very similar things.
>>
>> My question is: I'd like to be able to call the various rig-joints
>> generated by the the limb class. My thought is to create a dictionary with
>> a key identifying the limb, and the values are lists of the left and/or
>> right IK and/or FK rig-joints that get generated.
>>
>> For example (pseudocode):
>>
>> From autorigger ---> pass to limb class: *
>> lmb.prepLimb(self,"leg",legJnts,checkIK,checkFK,checkMirror)*
>>
>> class Limbs(object):
>> def __init__(self):
>>
>>
>>
>> self.ikHandles=[]
>> self.IKrigJnts=[]
>> self.FKrigJnts=[]
>> self.pvPos=[]
>>
>> # dictionaries
>> self.dHandles={}
>> self.dIkjnts={}
>> self.dFkjnts={}
>> self.dPvPos={}
>>
>>
>>
>> def prepLimb(self,limbName,rigJoints,IK,FK,mirror):
>>
>>
>> if mirror:
>>
>> #split the rigJoints list into separate sublists
>> for i,mirroredJnts in enumerate(rigJoints):
>>
>>
>> self.buildLimb(limbName,mirroredJnts, IK, FK)
>>
>> else:
>> self.buildLimb(limbName,rigJoints, IK, FK)
>>
>>
>>
>> def buildLimb(self,limbName,rigJoints,IK,FK):
>>
>> # create the limbs
>>
>>
>> The full class is here: *http://pastebin.com/skBZf4TS*
>> <http://pastebin.com/skBZf4TS>
>>
>> I'd like to know how to get the following result in,for example, the
>> dIkjnts dictionary:
>>
>> self.dIkjnts={"leg":[[IK_L_upLeg_JNT,IK_L_knee_JNT,IK_L_ankle_JNT],[
>> IK_R_upLeg_JNT,IK_R_knee_JNT,IK_R_ankle_JNT]],"arm":[[IK_L_shoulder_JNT,
>> IK_L_elbow_JNT,IK_L_wrist_JNT],[IK_R_shoulder_JNT,IK_R_elbow_JNT,
>> IK_R_wrist_JNT]]}
>>
>> This way, if I have to access the relevant rig joints, I can call:
>>
>> # arm setup
>>
>> limb="arm"
>>
>> armIkjnts=self.dIkjnts[limb]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm assuming that there has got to be a direct relationship between the
>> lists and the dictionaries to be populated. It works fine if it's only,
>> say, the legs. But as soon as the other set of limbs get generated by the
>> limb class, the new key (i.e. "arm":) gets both the legs and the arm values.
>>
>> The only way so far I found to somewhat fix this was to clear the lists,
>> but I don't think that's the proper way.
>>
>> I hope I'm explaining myself clearly. Your help and feedback is
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
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