On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:37 AM, hapgilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I try to create a PyNode with a custom shape node: newNode = PyNode
> ('myCustomShape')
> I get the following error:
>
> newNode = PyNode('myCustomShape')
> # Error: object.__new__(X): X is not a type object (function)
> # Traceback (most recent call last):
> # File "<maya console>", line 1, in <module>
> # File "d:\depot\toystory3\main\build\tools\maya\common\python\pymel
> \core\general.py", line 1433, in __new__
> # self = super(PyNode, cls).__new__(newcls)
> # TypeError: object.__new__(X): X is not a type object (function) #
>
> I'm not a python guru, but it looks like PyMel doesn't recognize the
> node type. Shouldn't PyMel be loading custom node types when the
> module is imported?
>
> Yes... yes, it should. Not sure what's going on here, but it's a bug of
some sort.
One odd thing though... when I tested this, I got a slightly different
error:
MayaNodeError: Maya Node does not exist: u'spBasicShape'
...which is, at least, somewhat more to the point. What version of pymel
are you using?
- Paul
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