Re: Question regarding Bone Chains (Python)

[Sergio Mucino]

This is a nice trick. Thanks Alan! (And everyone else for all the help). I ended up doing what Eric explained (I needed to move on), and it worked fine. Other approaches are still very useful. Cheers! On 07/11/2013 4:16 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: ...or if you know you've got a collection, print its .GetAsText() result. It'll return an empty string if it's genuinely empty, else it's comma-separated full names. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Orlando Esponda <orlando.espo...@gmail.com> wrote: you could also use   list(chainRoot.Children)   to convert a collection into a list. si = Application chainRoot = si.Create2DSkeleton(0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, -90, 0, 0, 4) print chainRoot print list(chainRoot.Children) print list(chainRoot.Bones) print chainRoot.Effector On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com> wrote: It's annoying and I'd rather see the word "Collection" instead of None. There was an article on xsisupport.com about it explaining something of why it wasn't changed to say so. Just one of those things you should just learn at this point. On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:59:35 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote: Ah, I see. In other applications, collections come out as an array. The "None" made me think something went boom. Thanks Eric! Something new learned... and before lunch time! Cheers! On 07/11/2013 11:56 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: You're printing out collections. When you do a print on a collection it prints "None". Instead if you want to get at the objects it would be better to iterate over the items in the collection: for eachItem in chainRoot.Bones:    Application.LogMessage(eachItem) On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:46:11 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote: So, I'm trying to do something pretty simple and straightforward. Create a 1-bone joint chain, and get back all of its elements. Turns out this is not being as straight-forward as it should be. Here's the little snippet of this part of my script... si = Application chainRoot = si.Create2DSkeleton(0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, -90, 0, 0, 4) print chainRoot print chainRoot.Children # Not working print chainRoot.Bones # Not working print chainRoot.Effector ''' Properties taken from here http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/index.html ''' As you can see, I'm printing out the properties I'd need, but two of them (the two I'd actually care about) are 'not working' (they return 'None'). Why is this? Are they broken, or am I missing something? Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -- -- IMPRESSUM: PiXABLE STUDIOS GmbH & Co.KG, Sitz: Dresden, Amtsgericht: Dresden, HRA 6857, Komplementärin: Lenhard & Barth Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Sitz: Dresden, Amtsgericht: Dresden, HRB 26501, Geschäftsführer: Frank Lenhard, Tino Barth IMPRINT: PiXABLE STUDIOS GmbH & Co.KG, Domicile: Dresden, Court of Registery: Dresden, Company Registration Number: HRA 6857, General Partner: Lenhard & Barth Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Domicile: Dresden, Court of Registery: Dresden, Company Registration Number: HRB 26501, Chief Executive Officers: Frank Lenhard, Tino Barth -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.