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St4rb0y
St4rb0y

Reputation: 309

Keyframe simple maya loops in python?

I have this very simple python script in Maya that I want to animate. I first want to adapt the end time of the animation to the number of iterations, in order to have enough keyframes for the animation. After that I want to add a keyframe for the movement of the polyCube at each loop iteration to produce the moving animation.

import maya.cmds as mc

iterations = 10 #number of keyframes
transVal = 1 #translation value for each iteration

mc.polyCube(constructionHistory=True, width=1, height=1, depth=1)

for i in range(iterations):
    mc.move(transVal, cube, relative=True, moveZ=True)
    mc.setKeyframe(insert=True, value=i)

Would it alternatively be possible to add a keyframe at the beginning and one at the end and let maya calculate the motion tweens (like it does in the UI)?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2204

Answers (1)

joojaa
joojaa

Reputation: 4434

Scripting in Maya is the same thing as using the GUI so yes its possible to do exactly the same thing as in GUI.

import maya.cmds as mc

distance = 10
timedelta = 10

cube = mc.polyCube(constructionHistory=True, width=1, height=1, depth=1)
mc.setKeyframe(cube[0], time=1, v=0, at='translateZ')
mc.setKeyframe(cube[0], time=timedelta, v=10, at='translateZ')

Upvotes: 1

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