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DatCabbage
DatCabbage

Reputation: 1

'module' has no attribute 'translateX' error in Maya

I have just recently started writing Python code to be used in Maya.

My code looks like this:

import maya.cmds as cmds;
import random as rand;
for x in range (0,10):
    cmds.polyCube(cmds.translateX == rand(0,100));
    x += 1;

Maya then gives the error, 'module' has no attribute 'translateX'

I am not sure what is going on. Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 250

Answers (1)

theodox
theodox

Reputation: 12218

translateX isn't a command or part of the argument for a polyCube.

What you want is something more like

import maya.cmds as cmds;
import random as rand;
for x in range (10):
    # create the cube at origin
    cmds.polyCube()
    # move it to a random X
    cmds.xform( t = (rand.randrange(0,100), 0, 0) )

When you create the polyCube it will be selected, so issuing the xform() immediately afterward will only affect the most recently created cube. You could also use cmds.setAttr(".translateX" = rand(0,100)) but that's less flexible if you also want to set the Y or Z directions

Upvotes: 2

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