Thanks guys..
@Simon, when you mentioned "I need to increment the names of the
instances", I realized I needed to add a # to the instance name string,
like : instObject = cmds.instance(result, name='%s_inst*#*' % (result[0]))
By giving each instance a unique name maya was able to add it nest it into
the group.
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 9:40:53 PM UTC-7, Simon Anderson wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> import maya.cmds as cmds
>> import random
>> random.seed (1234)
>>
>> result = cmds.ls(orderedSelection=True)
>>
>> instanceGroup = cmds.group(empty=True, name='Grp_Inst_%s' % (result[0]))
>>
>> for i in range(0,50):
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> rotX=random.uniform(0,360)
>> rotY=random.uniform(0,360)
>> rotZ=random.uniform(0,360)
>> cmds.rotate(rotX,rotY,rotX,instObject)
>>
>> 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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