Thanks for the reply. My issue was getting the gradient control to appear in the attribute editor though - like it appears in the "Profile Curve" section in the attribute editor for the polySplitRing object.
Has anyone managed to do this? In the gradientControl docs it mentions a mel script AEaddRampControl, but I couldn't seem to get it to work. On Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:58:11 UTC-8, Justin Israel wrote: > > There is a link > here<http://www.creativecrash.com/forums/mel/topics/gradientcontrol-example> > that > goes into the details of how gradientControl apparently needs some specfic > arrangements of properties. > Here is a python equivalent based on the MEL example of the graph: > > objName = cmds.polySphere()[0] > attrib = "graph" > objAttrib = '.'.join([objName, attrib]) > > cmds.addAttr(objName, longName=attrib, > attributeType="compound", multi=True, > numberOfChildren=3) > cmds.addAttr(objName, shortName='%sX' % attrib, > attributeType='float', parent=attrib) > cmds.addAttr(objName, shortName='%sY' % attrib, > attributeType='float', parent=attrib) > cmds.addAttr(objName, shortName='%sInterp' % attrib, > attributeType='enum', enumName="Linear:Spline", > parent=attrib) > > # Now create your own window with a gradientControl > cmds.window(title='Gradient Control For Attribute') > cmds.columnLayout() > # this needs to come after the columnLayout (the maya python example has > an error) > cmds.gradientControl(at=objAttrib) > cmds.showWindow() > > What this gets you is a "table" looking attribute on your node, but in > your window you have the graph control. The part about the AE templates is > for your custom node, to tell it how to represent it's attributes in the > Attribute Editor. > > > > On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:47:09 PM UTC-8, Henry van der Beek wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I want to create a gradient attribute on an existing node. I've seen code >> how to do this in MPxNode in a plugin, I'm wondering if it's possible to do >> this dynamically. >> >> >> This code is in the docs: >> >> import maya.cmds as cmds >> >> cmds.window( title='Gradient Control For Attribute' ) >> >> objName = cmds.createNode('polySplitRing') >> >> cmds.columnLayout() >> >> cmds.gradientControl( at='%s.profileCurve' % objName ) >> >> cmds.showWindow() >> >> >> I'm not sure how to actually create the attribute (profileCurve in this >> example) which gets controlled by the gradient control. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Henry >> > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
