Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-04-17 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Is there a way of adding dict as an extra attribute to objects?

2018-04-17 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Node tagging system

2018-04-17 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] MFnAnimCurve building

2017-05-17 Thread Mark Jackson
s and then restore the >> lock setting for the tangent afterwards. > > > I think in your case if the order of setAngle would change the slope of > the tangents if you do this operation without unlocking the tangent. Try > setting the angles after unlocking the tangents and th

[Maya-Python] MFnAnimCurve building

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Jackson
though the saved data is all correct Can anybody shed any light on this? cheers Mark - Mark Jackson CEO / Technical Director red9consultancy.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Aut

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Maya 2017 evaluation

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Maya 2017 evaluation

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Jackson
not a big uplift in speed. However, when you then have clients with 5 characters in the scene all running MoCap and the skins are going off to the GPU then it's a huge boost. Can be a little unstable mind you! cheers Mark Mark Jackson CEO & Technical Director www.red9Consultancy.com &

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: workspaceControl in 2017

2016-10-07 Thread Mark Jackson
trol(animUI.workspaceCnt, e=True, r=True) # raise >>> >>> Now that all works but I'll be damned if I can find a way to control and >>> lock the width of this UI. If I go to the modelling tab and then my tab the >>> ui is the correct width, presumably because I set the

Re: [Maya-Python] workspaceControl in 2017

2016-10-06 Thread Mark Jackson
Thu, 6 Oct 2016, 10:24 PM Mark Jackson <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to switch some of our base toolset so that the main UI (cmds >> built) now docks correctly in the same tab as the channelBox rather than >> docking to the

[Maya-Python] workspaceControl in 2017

2016-10-06 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Sphinx issues with OpenMaya?

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Jackson
he actual command that you are running look like that > produces the error? > > On 7 September 2016 at 11:46, Mark Jackson <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for all the replies guys, currently all our testing / unitTesting >> all goes through nose and cove

Re: [Maya-Python] Sphinx issues with OpenMaya?

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Sphinx issues with OpenMaya?

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Jackson
DLL load failed errors are typically due to your Python version trying to > load a module that wasn't compiled for it. > > Have a look in your environment for things like PySide/PyQt and that your > Python actually running is `mayapy`. > > On 7 September 2016 at 09:31, Mark Jackso

[Maya-Python] Sphinx issues with OpenMaya?

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Jackson
Morning all, I'm trying to get our API docs updated and to do so I've always run Sphinx to generate the docs but from an old laptop that was 32bit and running Maya2012. I'm trying to get the whole thing running again from 2016 but running into issues whenever the Sphinx build process hits

Re: [Maya-Python] Getting the year of the Maya version used

2016-07-12 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] Maya Command completion and properties????

2016-06-02 Thread Mark Jackson
halt anytime you try dot completing the class object. I'm figuring I may just roll all the calls back to getters/setters but wondered it there was any magic fix I'm not aware of.. cheers Mark --------- Mark Jackson CEO / Technical Director red9consultancy.com -- You r

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Plugin hanging with change to currentTime

2016-04-08 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Plugin hanging with change to currentTime

2016-04-07 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Plugin hanging with change to currentTime

2016-04-07 Thread Mark Jackson
, but obviously the nodes it's snapping aren't in the correct place. If I switch back to DG eval all is good. Any ideas guys thanks Mark On 3 November 2015 at 03:39, Paul Molodowitch <elron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Glad it worked for you guys! > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:40 AM Mar

Re: [Maya-Python] AnimLayers pain

2016-03-24 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Python decode/encode

2015-11-29 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Python decode/encode

2015-11-26 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Plugin hanging with change to currentTime

2015-11-02 Thread Mark Jackson
sk support, setting this on has no adverse side >>>>>>>> effects, but I'm leery - if so, why not have it on by default? That >>>>>>>> said, >>>>>>>> it's worked for us beautifully so far, without any noticeable issues... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Was

Re: [Maya-Python] Plugin hanging with change to currentTime

2015-10-30 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] Maya scene unit conversion

2015-04-27 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] PySide Maya 2013

2015-01-31 Thread Mark Jackson
Hi guys, this is a bit of an urgent request, we've got a demo on Monday of the Red9 Pro Pack in which we're running PySide, but we've just found that the demo machine will be Maya 2013 32 bit. Does anybody have a compiled build of PySide for 2013 32bit they wouldn't mind sharing up??? thanks

Re: [Maya-Python] Setting keyframes in one shot?

2015-01-16 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] Setting keyframes in one shot?

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Jackson
or if the only way to get any more speed is to go to the api? Any pointers guys? thanks Mark - Mark Jackson CEO / Technical Director red9consultancy.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Python Programming for Autodesk Maya

Re: [Maya-Python] Blendshape pains

2014-11-22 Thread Mark Jackson
. Cheers! Eduardo On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the middle of writing a new facial pipeline for Red9 clients and and trying to get a solid corrective sculpt pipeline up and running, but I'm hitting issues with blendshapes, or rather, the god

Re: [Maya-Python] Unable to get the difference between 2 lists

2014-11-21 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] Blendshape pains

2014-11-21 Thread Mark Jackson
because of similar issues managing the blendShape node. The issue I have with this project is that we're sculpting ontop of a pretty heavy mesh and keeping all the targets in the scene is bloating it massively. Any pointers guys?? thanks Mark - Mark Jackson

Re: [Maya-Python] MObject unique ID's

2014-11-14 Thread Mark Jackson
connections are lost then you have the uuids to match them back up. I'd prefer an alternative though! On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marcus, thanks for the link, seems to re-enforce everything I've found so far, might ping the devs a mail, see if there's

Re: [Maya-Python] MObject unique ID's

2014-11-13 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] MObject unique ID's

2014-10-31 Thread Mark Jackson
to the same internal Maya object will return the same hash code.* Can anybody shed any light on this, am I barking up the wrong tree here? cheers Mark - Mark Jackson CEO / Technical Director red9consultancy.com -- You received this message because you

Re: [Maya-Python] MObject unique ID's

2014-10-31 Thread Mark Jackson
. -Dave On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm revisiting the Red9_Meta caching setup and am looking at the possibility of using the MObjectHandles hashID as a key in the MetaCache that I build up, currently I store the key as the dag path which

Re: [Maya-Python] Remove namespace from object

2014-09-04 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Change the location of Bonus Tools ( 2015 xml )

2014-08-28 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Attribute update during timeline scrub?

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Jackson
reaching out. Somehow I thought that would be it. Is there perhaps a setting in Maya to have all attributes evaluated and updated while scrubbing that would then update the HUD as a by-product? Thx! Ken On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: You need to attatch

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Open Discussion of Pymel by a Pymel noob

2014-07-06 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Using JSON to import data into a class

2014-06-18 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Best way to get notified when Maya scene is saved, or undo is called?

2014-02-06 Thread Mark Jackson
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[Maya-Python] Sphinx help

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Jackson
is boldest, and the function bold. Seems odd that the params come out bolder and more obvious than the function they're describing. I'm assuming I'm missing a few things, only got this stuff running on Saturday. thanks Mark - Mark Jackson Technical

Re: [Maya-Python] Sphinx help

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Jackson
is relevant? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3687046/python-sphinx-autodoc-and-decorated-members -- justin On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: I'm finally getting Sphinx hooked up to the Red9 api and had a few questions to those of you running

Re: [Maya-Python] A question on mocap

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Jackson
limited ways (limited in that it might make you max out your allowed point count to be 3-4) is to generate a polygon using the points and attach to the surface. This method is also not that reliable if the points aren't rigid. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Mark Jackson mar...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: scene up query

2013-12-06 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Check if object affects other object

2013-06-27 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] textField example...

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Warning messages for artist - disappearing too fast

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Using the OOP functionality in rigging

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Re: need chat messenger in maya

2013-02-06 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Check if keyframe exists beyond the timeline?

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Force playblast not to clamp size?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Jackson
, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: It is, you need to use the 'playblastOffscreen' flag /optionVar then the image is grabbed straight from the card rather than grabbed from the display. This way you by-pass the current resolution limitations. On 28 September 2012 11:02

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: anyone here experienced with ffmpeg?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] Auto frame selected script

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Jackson
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Re: [Maya-Python] referenceQuery / getReferenceEdit bug - Pymel?

2010-07-09 Thread Mark Jackson
Thanks for that, I'll get Dave to grab the next Git build. In our case it was a simple SceneHealth function that I was writing, pass each refNode and check for editFails, then report those back on file open/referenceSwitch to catch issues. Fortunately we don't run nested refs, we force the riggers

Re: [Maya-Python] Extending PyMel

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Jackson
Well, as Dave and Susanta may have hinted, I've already got an outline approval from the directors here at Eurocom to allow us to comit into a Eurocom Pymel GIT branch, open source isn't something that they're particularly comfortable with but in this case it makes sense... and maybe for some of

Re: [Maya-Python] animation layers and custom attributes

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Jackson
with the simulation flag, still takes quite a while.. - Paul On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks I'll give that a go. I was actually thinking of a slightly more radical approach which, in testing avoids all the slowness completely. Basically

Re: [Maya-Python] animation layers and custom attributes

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Jackson
Yes, were running layers in production, whilst the animators like it, we have had some issues. If you're using 2010 and characterSets there was an issue that Maya would disconnect the characterSet from it's members, breaking any referencing thankfully this is fixed in 2011. Also it's

Re: [Maya-Python] animation layers and custom attributes

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Jackson
by frame, freeing up memory as it goes... Just a hunch, though. Regardless, the underlying call made when you do a merge layers through the GUI doesn't use simulation, so I recommend avoiding that when baking. - Paul On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Mark Jackson mark...@gmail.com wrote: Yes

Re: [Maya-Python] referenceQuery / getReferenceEdit bug - Pymel?

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Jackson
Ok, I think I've found the issue, and it's the fact that PyMel is passing in the reference path to the cmds.referenceQuery command and not the refNode itself. Looks like Maya cmds can't cope with copyNumbers {x} being passed in, I've got multiple references pointing to a single file so the paths

Re: [Maya-Python] Namespace woes

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Jackson
Yeah, the namespaceUI in 2011 is as basic as it gets, strikes me as a hours worth of coding at the best. ZooNamespacey is far better, but again, if you're trying to do namespace management at a code level there's just nothing there. You end up writing round namespace mv, rm and namespaceInfo

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: unlocking referenced nodes

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Jackson
animCurves are locked during referencing full stop, I don't think there's any way to unlock or edit them afterwards. It's a pain as one of the things I often found is that you may want to reference in a sequence, but shift the curve times round to suit. As far as I know there's no way to over-ride

Re: [Maya-Python] Adding to file menu

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Jackson
This is because since Maya2010 none of the menu's are actually built on boot, they get initilized/built when you first open the menu so it doesn't matter if you defer or not. You just need to build the menu before adding your options to it: call the buildFileMenu() first. They also did this for