You don't need any of the MScriptUtil code. If you just want the x,y,z,w values, those are available in the public attributes of the MQuaternion class.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Visor66 <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Chad, thanks for your quick answer. It works the way you said, > awesome, thanks! But still, I have to write all this!?: > > rotValues = OpenMaya.MScriptUtil() > rotValues.createFromDouble(0) > rotValuesPtr = rotValues.asDoublePtr() > matchQuaternion.get(rotValuesPtr) > print "x:%s, y:%s, z:%s" % (matchQuaternion.x, > matchQuaternion.y, > matchQuaternion.z) > > I need to define a pointer to pass to the get() function although I > dont need it at the end!? Is that correct or can I skip some stuff > from my code? > > thanks for your help > > > On 8 Apr., 00:04, Chad Vernon <[email protected]> wrote: > > You should just be able to do: > > x = matchQuaternion.x > > y = matchQuaternion.y > > z = matchQuaternion.z > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Visor66 <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > im trying to use the MQuaternion.get() function to extract x,y,z > > > values from a quaternion. Documentation says its giving me back an > > > array with 4 doubles. Whats the right way to use MScriptUtil() to > > > prepare a python variable to work with this function. This is how I > > > thought it could work: > > > > > rotValues = OpenMaya.MScriptUtil() > > > rotValues.createFromList([0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0],4) > > > rotValuesPtr = rotValues.asDouble4Ptr() > > > matchQuaternion.get(rotValuesPtr) > > > > > Im getting back this error message: > > > > > # Error: TypeError: in method 'MQuaternion_get', argument 2 of type > > > 'double [4]' # > > > > > The funny thing is, when I use rotValuesPtr = rotValues.asDoublePtr() > > > it works, but I only get the x value. So how would it be correct to > > > actually get all values from get() ? > > > > > thanks for any help! > > > > > -- > > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > > > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > > > > > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
