Hey everyone,
I'm working on a tool that loops through a bunch of meshes, creates a joint
for each and bakes the mesh's keyframes to the respective joint. I have it
working, but they way I'm doing it now is kind of slow because I am merging
all the meshes at the end in order to collapse all the skinClusters down to
one (so I don't have like, a million skinClusters in my export). Does
anyone have any ideas on how I can avoid that last merge step that is
taking so long? This tool will be used on files with 1000+ meshes which is
why I am concerned about speed.
def skin_frags(self):
cmds.cutKey(self.frags)
count = 0
for i in self.frags:
cmds.makeIdentity(i, apply=True)
skinCluster = cmds.skinCluster(i, self.fragJnts[count])
cmds.parent(self.fragJnts[count], self.scaleJnt)
count += 1
cmb = cmds.polyUniteSkinned(self.frags) #This is what makes it so
slow!
cmds.rename(cmb[0], "Frags_Merged")
I was trying out a separate idea too, where I create one skinCluster node,
then add each joint and mesh to that skinCluster, something like this:
frags = cmds.ls(sl=True)
fragJnts = []
count = 0
for i in frags:
fragPos = cmds.xform(i, query=True, t=True)
cmds.select(clear=True)
jnt = cmds.joint(position=fragPos, name='Frag_' + str(count) + '_JNT')
cmds.parent(i, jnt)
fragJnts.append(jnt)
count += 1
sc = cmds.skinCluster(frags[0], fragJnts[0])
count = 1
for i in range(1, len(frags)):
cmds.skinCluster(sc, edit=True, addInfluence=fragJnts[count],
geometry=frags[count], useGeometry=True) #Here I am trying to one-by-one
add the joint and respective mesh, but haven't got that
working yet either
count += 1
If anyone has any tips with either method I'm trying to use, I'd really
appreciate it!
Thanks,
Aren
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