You need to increment your names. I would also suggest you use the string
format command, its much easier to read and handle variables
name = "What ever you want to call it"
instanceName="{0}s_{1}_inst".format(name, i)
https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:14:52 UTC+10, jettam wrote:
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> I am trying to get all 50 instances to go into the instanceGroup. But for
> some I am only getting one instance object in to the group. Could someone
> help me with this. Why is my script not nesting all 50 instance into the
> group?
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> import maya.cmds as cmds
> import random
> random.seed (1234)
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> result = cmds.ls(orderedSelection=True)
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> instanceGroup = cmds.group(empty=True, name='Grp_Inst_%s' % (result[0]))
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> for i in range(0,50):
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> instObject = cmds.instance(result, name='%s_inst' % (result[0]))
> *cmds.parent(instObject, instanceGroup)*
> x=random.uniform(-10,10)
> y=random.uniform(0,20)
> z=random.uniform(-10,10)
> cmds.move(x,y,z,instObject)
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> rotX=random.uniform(0,360)
> rotY=random.uniform(0,360)
> rotZ=random.uniform(0,360)
> cmds.rotate(rotX,rotY,rotX,instObject)
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> uniformScale=random.uniform(.4,1.4)
> uniformScale=random.uniform(.4,1.4)
> uniformScale=random.uniform(.4,1.4)
> cmds.scale(uniformScale,uniformScale,uniformScale,instObject)
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