I implement a rigging workflow such that I frequently reuse a bunch of common shapes. I keep them all in a specific directory (a folder called “assets” in the my documents maya folder).
I have a python function that I use to import those shapes and here it is!:
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Radio buttons are a bit weird, they don’t have queryable data themselves, but they can run functions that will return values.
Here is how I used them:
Continue Reading →So Autodesk documentation on this is sparse and a bit inaccurate.
In order to get this function to work you need to separate out the parameters at the ‘.’ (something I am finding is a common thread among many of maya’s library functions)
This is the way to do it:
Note that this won’t work:
pointA = cmds.pointPosition(str(selectedCurve.cv[1]), world = True)
Because the .cv[1] is not separated out.
This however will work:
pointA = cmds.pointPosition(str(selectedCurve) + ‘.cv[0]’, world = True)#this is just another way of converting a ...
Continue Reading →I felt that it wasn’t immediately obvious how you go about doing this and It took a bit of research to figure out how it worked (and how it didn’t — as some tutorials that I followed seemed to maybe not be 100% sure of how it worked either)
There are two parts to this, one is in the GUI and the other is in the code that you want to use the info for:
Continue Reading →I often have to snap one object to another and then freeze transforms on the object that I snapped, so I wrote this procedure:
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I frequently have to have an object follow another object but that original object still has to be able to be controlled in the “local space” of the parent object, but then sometimes be independent of the parent object. Think an IK hand control.
Anyway, I have to do this so often that I thought I would write a script so I never have to do it again.
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