Thank you! I found out how to fix the string in my version but it is
definitely a helpful script to take a look for me in the future to learn :)
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 11:51:40 p.m. UTC-7 tomas mikulak wrote:
> Hi Anastasia,
> it is better to create nodes yourself to have more control over it. But
> then you would have to do some operations maya does automatically. or just
> find proc that does it.
>
> I use this definition to add shader to specific mesh. In my case name of
> texture and mesh have some conventions. but variables are mesh name and
> file path so it should be ok
>
> import maya.cmds as mc
>
>
> def createShader(name,texturePath):
> #name = 'test'
> attrList = ['coverage','translateFrame','rotateFrame','mirrorU','mirrorV',
> 'stagger','wrapU','wrapV','repeatUV','offset','rotateUV','noiseUV',
> 'vertexUvOne','vertexUvTwo','vertexUvThree','vertexCameraOne','outUV',
> 'outUvFilterSize']
> #create shader --- shadingNode -asShader surfaceShader;
> shd = mc.shadingNode('surfaceShader', asShader=True,name =name+'_SHD')
> #create shading engine --- sets -renderable true -noSurfaceShader true
> -empty -name surfaceShader1SG;
> shdSg = mc.sets(renderable=True, noSurfaceShader = True, empty = True,
> name = shd+'_SG')
> #connect --- connectAttr -f surfaceShader1.outColor
> surfaceShader1SG.surfaceShader;
> mc.connectAttr(shd+'.outColor', shdSg+'.surfaceShader')
> #create file node
> fNode = mc.shadingNode('file',asTexture = True, isColorManaged = True,
> name = name+'_TXT')
> #create 2dPalce
> placeNode = mc.shadingNode('place2dTexture', asUtility = True, name =
> name+'_p2D')
> #connets attrs
> for a in attrList:
> if a == 'outUV':
> mc.connectAttr(placeNode+'.outUV',fNode+'.uvCoord')
> elif a == 'outUvFilterSize':
> mc.connectAttr(placeNode+'.outUvFilterSize',fNode+'.uvFilterSize')
> else:
> mc.connectAttr(placeNode+'.'+a,fNode+'.'+a)
> #connect to shaader
> mc.connectAttr(fNode+'.outColor', shd+'.outColor')
>
> #link texture
> txtPath = os.path.join(texturePath,name+'.tif')
> #print(txtPath)
> if os.path.isfile(txtPath):
> mc.setAttr(fNode+'.fileTextureName', txtPath,type='string')
> #create luminance
> lumi = mc.shadingNode('luminance', asUtility=True, name = name+'_lum')
> mc.connectAttr(fNode+'.outAlpha', lumi+'.valueR')
> mc.connectAttr(fNode+'.outAlpha', lumi+'.valueG')
> mc.connectAttr(fNode+'.outAlpha', lumi+'.valueB')
> fMask = mc.shadingNode('floatMask', asUtility=True, name = name+'_fM')
> mc.connectAttr(lumi+'.outValue', fMask+'.mask')
> mc.connectAttr(fMask+'.outFloat', shd+'.outTransparencyR')
> mc.connectAttr(fMask+'.outFloat', shd+'.outTransparencyG')
> mc.connectAttr(fMask+'.outFloat', shd+'.outTransparencyB')
> #assign to mesh
> mc.select(name,r=True)
> mc.sets(forceElement=shdSg,e=True )
>
> st 16. 6. 2021 o 8:01 Anastasia Korol <anastas...@gmail.com> napísal(a):
>
>> Thank you so much! Such a hilarious mistake
>>
>> The other thing I found out is that the fileNode is always being created
>> as a new one for example fileNode12, etc and the texture node is connected
>> to it and can't work with fileNode12 since in setAttr there is a specific
>> format of fileNode1 ( cmds.setAttr("{}.fileTextureName".format(fileNode1),
>> file1, type="string") )
>>
>> I am sure it is a simple thing connected with usage of string type in the
>> right way. If somebody has an idea how to fix it, let me know!
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 22:52, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anastasia, welcome to the forum! In Python, the \ character is a
>>> special character for escaping other characters. E.g. \n means
>>> “newline”. In your example, the \ is used in your path:
>>>
>>> file1 = ("C:\Users\User\Download\swatch_arles-yellow__6094-42.png")
>>>
>>> You can either keep it, and prepend a r to make it a “raw string”, like
>>> so:
>>>
>>> file1 = (r"C:\Users\User\Download\swatch_arles-yellow__6094-42.png")
>>>
>>> Which informs Python to “hey, don’t give special treatment to any of
>>> these characters”. Or you can replace \ for /, Windows is OK with that
>>> syntax. You can also remove the parentheses since they are not needed.
>>>
>>> There might be other issues with your snippet, but this is definitely
>>> one of them.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 at 06:23, Anastasia Korol <anastas...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys! I am beginner in Python and need a little bit of help with
>>>> locating a path for texture file in Maya. It is a lambert shader with
>>>> layered texture node and 3 texture files which I need to define. Hopefully
>>>> it is the right chat to seek for help with such a noob question. The
>>>> shader
>>>> creating works perfectly so the only thing is texture file error when maya
>>>> can't find the texture file path at all:
>>>>
>>>> https://del.dog/crafubingu.txt
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
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