Hey thanks haggi, that definitely works. I'm still curious if there is a
way to make a list of ascending objects into a range? Or do you think this
would not ever be necessary?
On Saturday, 19 August 2017 09:43:26 UTC-4, haggi wrote:
>
> At a first glance, you do not need the BlockList at all because you so not
> use the contents. You only use it to get a number of elements to iterate
> over. You would get the same result if you simply do a:
>
> for i in range(10):
> cmds.duplicate()
> ....
>
>
> Just in case you want to give the new objects a name, you can do a:
>
> newName = "BLOCK{0}".format(i)
>
> haggi
>
> Am 19.08.2017 um 15:31 schrieb Johnathan Scoon:
>
> Hey guys, I'm just playing around with simple for loops trying to get my
> head around it. I wrote a script that creates a series of cubes and places
> them a certain distance apart on the translate X axis.
>
> from maya import cmds
> BlockList = ("BLOCK", "BLOCK1", "BLOCK2", "BLOCK3", "BLOCK4", "BLOCK5")
> cmds.polyCube(n="BLOCK")
> for s in BlockList:
> cmds.duplicate()
> Name = cmds.ls (selection = True)
> movevalue = 2
> postvalue = cmds.getAttr(Name[0]+".tx")
> shift = movevalue + postvalue
> cmds.move(shift,0,0)
>
>
> Now this works fine but what if I wanted to increase the number of cubes
> to say 100 or more? It would be inefficient for me to have to type all
> those names out into Blocklist. I know you can represent a long list of
> numbers in a range, but I can't seem to find any information on how to make
> a range what would include object names with the numbers. Any help here is
> greatly appreciated!
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