You could try something similar to
Object
Null (MyControl)
- posx
- posy
- posz
- Null2 (MyCustomParamSet1)
-- customParam1
-- customParam2
- Null3 (MyCustomParamSet2)
-- customParam1
-- customParam2
It won't be manageable via the Attribute editor the way you would like but it
will be easily accessible via channel box by selecting the Null, Null2, or
Null3 group nodes under the object from the Outliner. If you hide extraneous
channels in each null it might be at least very presentable from an
Outliner/Channel box workflow, but won't be what you want structurally from the
back side and won't be presentable the way you would want from a single
Attribute Editor display.
To my knowledge Maya has never had a sense for "Custom Parameters" the way that
Soft does it. Attributes have always been "node" level, if that's even a good
way to describe it.
And yeah, the Maya philosophy of visibility has no similarity to Soft.
--
Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
MYMIC Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
__________________________________________________
Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:softimage-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?
>
> Hey Joey,
>
> Yeah I know the standard workflow for attributes in Maya just wasn't sure if
> there was a new organizational structure in recent years.
>
> I basically want to make sets of attributes on an actual object, not a child
> object. Custom Param Sets in Softimage allow for this as you have a nested
> param set where more custom params can live.
>
> MyControl
> - posx
> - posy
> - posz
> - MyCustomParamSet1
> - customParam1
> - customParam2
> - MyCustomParamSet2
> - customParam1
> - customParam2
>
> The above structure doesn't seem to be doable in Maya and I'm currently
> using a very hacky method of creating locked enum attributes with a value of
> "----" to divide up sections of attributes. Accessing these sets via
> scripting is
> annoying as these attributes aren't nested under a Param Set or other
> organizational type structure and thus breaking the parody between
> Softimage, Maya, and Kraken.
>
> I'm able to work around for now and make things work, it's just not elegant.
>
> The few things that I wish AD would implement in Maya as an offering of
> good faith for ending Softimage to me, would be non-inherited visibility,
> custom attribute sets and proxy-attributes. The latter being the largest
> inconvenience I've come across yet for Character setup in Maya.
>
> Eric T.
>
>
> On 5/13/2015 12:02 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
> > As you probably already know custom attributes are added via
> Attributes>Add Attributes in an object's Attribute Editor.
> >
> > You're asking, I think, can you have custom Attributes in a special panel
> > like
> is done in Soft.
> >
> > You can add attributes anywhere, to nulls, to objects etc. If you want an
> attribute with behavior applied to another object but need to manage
> separately you can add that to a group or null then formulate the attribute to
> work on a different object.
> >
> > Custom attributes show up in the channel box of the object they are added
> to.
> >
> > Or in the Extra Attributes section of the object where they can be isolated
> from the rest of the transform channels. You must execute "Load Attributes"
> for them to show up there.
> >
> > If you want a similar kind of structure to what Soft permits, make a null
> object and parent it under the main object, rename it to Controls or
> something of the sort. Create all your custom attributes there and close all
> section to its attribute editor other than Extra Attributes. From the channel
> box you can "Hide" all the transform channels you don't want to see for this
> "control" object (Right click>hide selected on each channel) making this a bit
> more pleasant experience as a "custom param" panel if you decide to use
> the channel box to access the info.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joey Ponthieux
> > LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical
> > Services NASA Langley Research Center
> > __________________________________________________
> > Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not
> > represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:softimage-
> >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:42 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Any equivalent to Custom Param sets in Maya?
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> Wondering if there is a container like object where you can add
> >> attributes to that lives under an object in Maya. Also having
> >> multiple instances of this object type as well with the attributes within
> >> it
> exposed in the channel box.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Eric T.
>
