maya api: uv to world and mr issues

[playmesumch00ns]

I wrote a plugin to do this... hang on while I dig it out...


Ok found it. MItMeshPolygon provides a pointAtUv function, but you have to give it a face first.

Looks like I just went through and brute-forced it. It might be better if you're doing lots of these queries to write a node that you could hook your mesh shape up to. Then you'd put your mesh's uv space in a grid structure for fast searching. You could then just query the node for fast lookups.

[tciny]

Great! Thanks.

Although I already had a look at MItMeshPolygon... damn, I'm getting blind... :)

[tciny]

Mind if I ask just one more thing? :)

How to I get the MObject of a node? Meaning: In the Nodes compute function, how do I get an MObject for it? Is there some simple way to do this?

[tweeeker]

How to I get the MObject of a node? Meaning: In the Nodes compute function, how do I get an MObject for it? Is there some simple way to do this?

try:

MObject myMO = thisMObject();

thisMObject() is a member of MPxNode, just like compute().

T

[tciny]

I tried the following to pinpoint the problem I'm having, but it seems to me that the fuction just isnt working...

MObject thisNode = thisMObject();
MDGModifier dgmod;
dgmod.renameNode(thisNode, MString("blah"));

The node isnt renamed tho... any ideas?

[tweeeker]

You have to call the doIt() method of MDGModifier to actually make the changes.

MObject thisNode = thisMObject();
MDGModifier dgmod;
dgmod.renameNode(thisNode, MString("blah"));
dgmod.doIt();

T

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