Fear not for I found a workaround.
I made a clip of the entire timeline and then duplicated it and resetting
the start & end points for each clip
char = cmds.character(name='char_')
fullMin, fullMax = setAndReturnMinMax()
fullClip = cmds.clip(char, sc=1, name='clipFull',startTime=fullMin,
endTime=fullMax)
fullClipName = fullClip[0]+'Source'
for clipName in propClipData:
# Extract all the info we need
timeRange = propClipData[clipName]['key_range']
minKey = int(timeRange.split(':')[0])
maxKey = int(timeRange.split(':')[1])
# Duplicate the clip
dupeClip = cmds.clip(char, name=fullClipName, d=1, sc=1, newName=clipName)
cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.startFrame', minKey)
cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.sourceStart', minKey)
cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.sourceEnd', maxKey)
cmds.clip(char, name=dupeClip+'Source', newName=clipName)
cmds.clip(char, rm=1, name=fullClipName) # remove the full clip leaving only
our proper clips
On Friday, 27 May 2016 11:21:23 UTC+2, Benjam901 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a bit of trouble with creating multiple clips and applying
> them to a character set.
>
> What I am trying to achieve is to have multiple clips on one character set
> for animated props.
> The user would create their clips in the tool I have set up and then
> exporting the prop would create a character set for the prop in question.
> I then create clips using the start and end times the user has provided.
>
> Problem I am having is when the user has more than one clip I need to
> leave the keys on the timeline so I can extract them again I do this using:
>
> def createCharSet(ns='', selectObj='vh'):
> '''create character set'''
> char_name='char_'+ns
> cmds.select(str(selectObj),hi=1)
> char = cmds.character(name=char_name)
> return char
>
> char_name= createCharSet(ns='test', selectObj='animated_prop')
> cmds.clip(char_name, sc=1, name='clip_test',startTime=0,endTime=85, lo=1)
> cmds.clip(char_name, sc=1, name='clip_test2',startTime=95,endTime=136,
> lo=1)
>
>
> Using the lo=1 flag I get to keep the keys and make as many clips as I
> want....except using this flag offsets my animation in very weird ways and
> I am confused as to why this is happening.
> I have tried setting other flags such as allRelative, allAbsolute etc. to
> 0 but to no avail.
>
> am I missing a flag or 2 that is helping me achieve this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>
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