Maya
Pypredef
As my Python modules grew in number and complexity I found myself wanting code autocomplete. I also wanted the predefined completion (pypredef) files to be generated automatically. Here’s what I did. I started by creating a function that converts a string into an imported module. The string would be the...
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Eclipse Port
Like most who use Python with Maya my primary IDE is Eclipse. There are plenty of other sites that have step-by-step tutorials for setting up Eclipse to work with Maya. So I won’t be covering that. Instead I have a tip for automatically opening a port to the IDE...
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Getting Children
Here’s a little utility function for getting all the children across all branches of an object’s hierarchy. [crayon-5f91f5e8c53bf223503580/] We start by getting the MDagPath of the passed in object name and use it to construct an instance of the MFnDagNode function set. The dag path has a public function called...
