You could use a geometry constraint on keep it snapped to the surface.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:37 AM, jonmill...@gmail.com
wrote:
> is there a way in python to make a locator follow a planes geometry in
> the y axis?
>
> ive got a locator driving the x and z translations but i want it to
> als
Yes. Though it won't be installed via easy_install. Only a manual one.
You can download pymel and just copy the maintainence module into your
path to create them with:
import maintainence
maintainence.stubs.pymelstubs(extension='pi')
Ian
I can also post
2010/1/5 Miguel González Viñé :
> Hi Chad,
Drew,
What I've been doing is using sitecustomize to inject pymel to the
front of the python path at startup. The `downside` is that pymel
shows up in the python path universally but some of the utils that are
included I've been learning/finding great use for in other places. The
Path class in par
Sure can
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Chad Dombrova wrote:
> ian, can you provide some instructions on how to set this up that we can
> include in the docs?
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Ian Jones wrote:
>>
>> Drew,
>>
>> What I've been doing
ial docs updated in a few days. in the
>> meantime, ian was nice enough to post his instructions here:
>> http://github.com/shrtcww/pymel/blob/1e4d2fbab671445b21e89c0c7a6f2b7d...
>>
>> github automatically turns the restructuredText into html, which is
>> awesome.
&
;
>>>>
>>>> Putthing this in userSetup.mel does not work either:
>>>> python("import sys;sys.path.insert(0,'/path/to/top-pymel-dir');");
>>>>
>>>> Nor does this in userSetup.mel:
>>>> putenv "PYTHONPATH" (
7;via userSetup.mel scripts but it did
> not put it
> 'quick enough', it is too late once it gets to userSetup.mel scripts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -jason
>
> On Feb 5, 4:26 pm, Ian Jones wrote:
>> Looks like what is inside your sitecustomize.py file is correct
>
r
>> version of Maya. I cannot have 1 path designated for the entire
>> machine.
>>
>> Appreciate your responses,
>>
>> -jason
>>
>> On Feb 5, 4:46 pm, Ian Jones wrote:
>> > Sort of.
>> >
>> > I do set this at the operating sys
I use a sitecustomize.py for our general python packages and a
seperate usersetup.py (right beside the sitecustomize.py) to handle
specific items for maya.
It cuts down the sitecustomize into more manageable pieces and seems
to be working out well for us.
Ian
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Da
gt; can call the correct mayapy directly.
>>
>> At any rate, what you are describing sounds reasonable, but I would
>> advise limiting the content of sitecustomize to site customization
>> only. Not only will your cmds problem go away, but you will a system
>> t
Sounds like you are running into an issue with the dummy loading in
the maya package. I thought this was suppose to be fixed - so it might
be a red herring. To verify I would ensure the maya package is coming
from beside pymel's maya package (if your using 1.0+) and not the one
that ships with maya
You might also want to look at:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote:
> And shortly after I press "Send", I notice this search result on Google:
>
> http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/366/python-how-to-run-a-command-line-within-pyt
pymel.cmds.file(q=1, mf=1) should work.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jamie Macdougall wrote:
> Ok thanks. I was trying to avoid importing maya.cmds
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Ofer Koren wrote:
>
>> I don't think pymel has any convenience function for this, so you have to
>> go vi
Have you made sure you have kEmbedded = 1 ~line 96?
I followed the instructions in Wing's How To and it's been working great for
me.
Top Menu > Help > How To's > 6.5 Using WingIDE with Autodesk Maya.
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Count Zer0 wrote:
> I seem to recall that happening to me aw
This is the code I'm using (2011x64.hotfix3-win7)
import maya.OpenMaya as om
import maya.OpenMayaAnim as oma
#variables outside the scope of this but should be straight forward
plug = MPlug_from_elsewhere
values = list_of_values_from_elsewhere
#initialize function set
anim_curve_function_set = o
So this is annoying but I think this has something to do with how
findKeyframe works.
If you add a pause it seems to work just fine:
import maya.cmds as mc
#create sphere
mc.polySphere(ch=True,o=True, r=5)
#key sphere in diffrent time
mc.currentTime(5, edit=True )
mc.setKeyframe("pSphere1")
t the executeInMainThread. Just wanted something to
make sure everything was caught up before running.
Ian
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Paul Molodowitch wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Ian Jones wrote:
>
>> So this is annoying but I think this has something to do with how
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last')
print firstKey
print lastKey
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
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0.0
Not sure why though.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Ian Jones wrote:
> I tested mc.refresh() and mc.dgdirty(a=True) and both when placed i
Yeah that seems odd to me too, are you using a custom version of pymel or
the one that shipped with Maya 2011?
@Chad, It's not all that uncommon to use forward slashes in my experience on
windows. Maya in particular doesn't seem to care. That said I haven't seen
any issues come of it.
Ian
On Sat
Can you post a specific example your stuck on? If you do I'll try and help
you through it or provide solutions.
Ian
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Morgan wrote:
> Hey all, I've been using sort of a hacky method for extending pymel, and
> I've just now been trying to get my head around subclas
You can also do your attribute setup (and establish what you need for the
isVirtual test then just call virtualized = pm.PyNode(newNode) and continue
on from there:
@classmethod
def _postCreateVirtual(cls, newNode):
""" This is called before creation, pymel/cmds allowed."""
ne
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015, 1:46 PM Crest Christopher
L
H
No lull kill LJ.lmkkhhng fog
wrote:
When I remove the Maya.env file, surprisingly a new Maya.env is created,
now that is not the surprise, the surprise is, it loads a five month old
Maya.env file, not a blank environment file, when I run th
Your likely talking about the dagMenuProc
Which you can extend with the function signature (mel): global proc
DagMenuProc(string $parentMenu)
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Todd Widup wrote:
> no, the RMB context sensitive menus
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Joe Weidenbach wrote:
>
>> A
Err: global proc DagMenuProc(string $nodeName, string $parentMenu)
Ian
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Ian Jones wrote:
> Your likely talking about the dagMenuProc
>
> Which you can extend with the function signature (mel): global proc
> DagMenuProc(string $parentMenu)
>
> O
Are you looking for pymel.core.optionvar?
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 11:17 AM Todd Widup wrote:
> found a way to hack around what I needed to do..but still curious if there
> is anything built into pymel to handle/manipulate the user prefs
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Todd Widup wrote:
>
>>
In the past one of the ways we've sanitized meshes like this is make a cube
and combine it with the desired mesh then delete the first 6 faces (from
the cube). That tends to force Maya to rebuild/reset everything.
Ian
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, 2:17 PM Chad Fox wrote:
> Thanks for the input, unfortu
wrote:
> There's a risk however of changing vertex order ?
>
>
> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:23:35 PM UTC+2, Ian Jones wrote:
>
>> In the past one of the ways we've sanitized meshes like this is make a
>> cube and combine it with the desired mesh then delete the fi
try this:
http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2009help/CommandsPython/exactWorldBoundingBox.html
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 4:48 PM BWV 656 wrote:
> For a regular geo I get the local bounding box by getting a bounding box
> info from its shape node.
>
> pyobj = selected()[0] #py.nt.Transform
> shpb
Hey Ben,
That's because your plugin is built in Python. The native commands are
implemented against the C API which is much faster. Your native example
spends less time in python and more in C which is probably why your seeing
those results.
The good news is it's a relatively straight forward por
iteration. It's very much a case by case basis.
Ian
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016, 9:19 AM Ben Hearn wrote:
> Ah I see, thanks for the tip. So is it advised to port from python to C++
> when you actually want to roll out the plugin?
>
> On 3 April 2016 at 17:53, Ian Jones wrote:
>
&g
Two recommendations: One I would use selection lists as they'll be faster
to interact with during your loops and you can convert them to strings if
needed. Second I would recommend looking at the mesh iterators as there
are convenient access to things like vertex count per face found there that
wil
It can be achieved without iteration if you solve the original problem in
another way.
If the problem originally is:
I’m putting together a minor helper function for establishing a transform
hierarchy within Maya but am not yet satisfied with the implementation.
Then I might suggest something li
I believe you can cheat it by padding spaces in the message or title if you
don't want to switch to QDialog.
Ian
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017, 9:15 AM Paul Molodowitch wrote:
> It's based on maya.cmds.confirmDialog, which has no such setting. If you
> need more explicit control, you'll have to make your
Your redeclaring the function printThis twice. Name thrm printA and printB.
As your currently calling the second one twice.
Ian
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 10:47 PM jettam wrote:
> From this function I m expecting this result:
> printStack(2,3)
> AAA number: 1
> AAA number: 2
> BBB number: 1
> BBB nu
Well if you like your MB and your current json/xml file solution but just
want them tied together so they don't get disconnected you may want to
consider just using a .zip to bind them. Uncompressed they can be very fast
and you can access files directly (to query your metadata etc) without
having
You can use mel. The Mel version of help does print out
useful information.
It's just not wrapped well by maya.cmds to expose to python.
Ian
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 3:00 AM Justin Israel wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 2:18 PM justin hidair
> wrote:
>
>> I guess you can do a command with a
That works for C++ command plugins too. I verified it on one specifically.
Ian
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 7:27 PM Michael Boon wrote:
> That works for Python plugins! It won't be quite so simple for a C++
> plugin (which my exporter is) but I will give it a try and report back.
>
&g
Believe you are looking for self.setResult(cam)
Set the value of the result to be returned by the command.
*Name:* setResult(value)
*Parameters:* value - bool, int, float, string, sequence of numerics or
sequence of strings
*Returns:* None
*Description:* Set the value of the result to be returned
Sometimes it's helpful to understand what you are trying to do and what you
are hoping to achieve along with the specific question, that can open up
other solutions.
By the looks of it you're trying to build up a list of animated nodes and a
way to query their values over time. While I don't know
Anytime, you can grab just a single frame by skipping the calls to
om.MGlobal.viewFrame(frame)
That's the bit that changes the frame to evaluate multiple frames.
Ian
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 5:07 PM kiteh wrote:
> Hey Ian, sorry for the late response and thanks for getting back despite I
> have r
are you looking for cmd.createNode(type="joint",skipSelect=True)?
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:14 PM stephenkmann wrote:
> I could have sworn there was an ignoreSelection flag for cmds.joint when
> creating a joint.
>
> does anyone know off hand if something like this exists?
>
> thanks
>
> -=s
>
>
I would highly recommend looking up an older project called mayasvn
(http://mayasvn.sourceforge.net/) I thought it tackled this problem in
a fairly elegant way (at least on the user side) as it implemented
script hooks to BeforeOpen/AfterSave which allowed the svn handling to
complement the standa
And todays news that Qt is going LGPL may speed up a lot of other
developers adoption.
http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing
On Jan 14, 9:43 am, "Jamie Macdougall" wrote:
> hey,
> I don't know about vxPython, only wxPython. Autodesk is moving their
> UIs over to QT though, so maybe that is
Thanks for the release - can't wait to play with it at home.
Unfortunately we still user 8.5 at the studio (but not for too much
longer I hope)
Ian
>
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Matt Estela
> > wrote:
>
> > Ha, go shaderboy go!
>
> > Now to get all of 3delights bindings in python...
I've used gliffy.com for this in that past
On Feb 17, 8:52 am, Steve Wart wrote:
> Inkscape is great
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:51 AM, barakooda wrote:
>
> > Thanx
>
>
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
Yours,
Maya-Python Club Team.
-~--~~~~--~~
Found one issue with RC4 (8.5SP1 x86):
from pymel import *
dup = PyNode('my_skinned_mesh')
attrs = dup.listAttr(locked=True)
for attr in attrs:
attr.setLocked(False)
results in:
# Error: argument number 1: Unmatched paren in format
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "", line
Sorry for the incomplete example.
However both code snippets you gave me raise the same error (output
below). I noticed this did not throw an error in 2009 - so I would
expect it to be 8.5 SP1 bug.
Ian
from pymel import *
s = polySphere()[0]
s.tx.setLocked(True)
attrs = s.listAttr(locked=True)
(False)
On Mar 3, 12:16 pm, Ian Jones wrote:
> Sorry for the incomplete example.
>
> However both code snippets you gave me raise the same error (output
> below). I noticed this did not throw an error in 2009 - so I would
> expect it to be 8.5 SP1 bug.
>
> Ian
>
&
Same here, Been very happy with wing.
Though I did try Komodo IDE ( http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/
) and found myself rather impressed with it - thought it had better
calltips,version control integration. I preferred wings debugger which
ended up being what sold me.
Ian
On Mon, Mar 9,
1) Revision control or No? if yes, which?
Yes - svn
2) Do developers work on live files (ie. files seen by general users)
or in individual sandboxes?
All developers work on a local checkout and commit to trunk when satisfied.
All users run off a network mirror of /trunk
Branches are used for la
With 2009 I've had to set the python current directory os.chdir to
%MAYA_LOCATION%\bin before to avoid issues on some computers when
using an interpreter other than mayapy.exe.
Lemme know if it helps.
Ian
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:16 AM, jens jebens wrote:
> It's a dll (library error), so I t
I asked a similar question on the autodesk subscription forums a while ago.
There response follows:
"Hi Ian,
>From mayapy if you run help(‘maya.standalone’) you’ll see that it has
only one function initialize(), so to restart Maya you need to exit
the parent python process.
I have opened a Ser
I can come out for Saturday-Sunday (28-29th).
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Paul Molodowitch wrote:
>
> Hum... well, I think I can actually come out for a day - Sunday, March
> 29th, ideally, but possibly Monday, March 30th as well.
>
> I assume Sunday would be better?
>
> - Paul
>
> On Thu,
Alternative in pymel via api:
from pymel import *
skin = PyNode('skinCluster1')
influnces = skin.getInfluence(q=True)
vert_list, values = skin.getPointsAffectedByInfluence(influnces[0])
vert_list = vert_list.getSelectionStrings()
index = 0
for vtxs in verts:
vtxs = PyNode(vtxs)
err wt_values -> values
so:
index = 0
for vtxs in verts:
vtxs = PyNode(vtxs)
for vert in vtxs:
print vert, values[index]
index += 1
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Ian Jones wrote:
> wt
I fly in Saturday morning (10ish) and out Sunday night around 9pm.
Ian
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Paul Molodowitch wrote:
>
> I, too, can work with any time on Sunday.
>
> - paul
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Sebastian Thiel
> wrote:
>> I personally am totally flexible and can ada
Yes this has been reported before and a known issue to Autodesk and
claimed-fixed in 2009 and to my testing thus far it has been.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Byron wrote:
>
> ... and I truly hope that whatever I found out is just my mistake,
> already solved and not as terrible as it appear
You could also do a.length() to get he result. There are a bunch of
useful functions built into the Vector class here is a link to the
documentation where you can see a list of some of the other ones like
unit() etc
http://pymel.googlecode.com/svn/docs/pymel.core.datatypes.Vector-class.html
On M
There is a memory leak in 8.5/2008 so I would try running your script
in Maya 2009 before you blame your script. If it's still leaking in
2009 I'd be glad to help you out.
Ian
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jakob Welner wrote:
> I am writing this animation transfer tool that seems to be havi
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