Trying to make xray on/off hotkey, need help

[Heinrich]

http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1735

Try going to SimplyMaya .co.uk. They know everything(almost)!

[4dartist]

Holy cow!!! damn your fast hehe, thanks so much, i made the keys and they work like a charm!!!

THanks again !

[dmcgrath]

This is what I use, I actually make shelf buttons all over the place. But the hotkey editor works as well.

I just made it so it turns all the model panels Xray on and then Xray off with diferent buttons.

you can copy and paste to make a shelf button:

//Xray off
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel4;


//Xray on
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel4;


if you ever need to know anything that is happening in the background, you can turn on "Echo all commands" in the script editor. But dont run maya all the time with this on, because you will eventually notice things slowing down.

[dwalden74]

Perhaps a better way would be first to query the active viewport:

string $currentPanel = `getPanel -wf `;


..then toggle xRay in that viewport. I´ve got this same script mapped to my alt+x keys...very useful.

:beer:
david

[dmcgrath]

It is certianly cleaner mel scripting that way. I did mine so it would turn them all on or off accordingly. I switch views so much that this way the better way for me. Now we have like three or four different ways to do this. That's one of the reasons I like Maya so much.

[bigfatMELon]

Make it 5 and this one I guarantee is the easiest.

Download togglemania from highend3d, run it, and pick the toggle you'd like to have created for you from the list.

-jl

[MasonDoran]

dwalden, so how does the script look like if you want to toggle between view modes? what is the script for toggling...i dont have any more shelf space and i am already using lots of hotkeys....and i would like to toggle isolate select. toggleMania doesnt support isolateSelect.....

[dwalden74]

so how does the script look like if you want to toggle between view modes?

..not sure I understand what you mean here. Anyway, the script I use is:


global proc dwXray()
{
string $panel = `getPanel -wf`;

//use this next line to be sure it's a model panel and not a outliner orother panel
if ( "modelPanel" == `getPanel -to $panel` )

if (`modelEditor -q -xray $panel` == 1)

modelEditor -e -xray 0 $panel;

else
modelEditor -e -xray 1 $panel;
}


enjoy-
david

[webster]

Hi,
try toggletools on www.highend3d.com ,

You´ll download a text-file with different very (for me) useful commands (toggle: grid, nurbs curve vis, nurbs vis, poly vis, template etc.

is it what You want ?

IMPORTANT: I don´t remember where the scripts are from, I´ve just adaptet it.
There are also a lot of tools on highend about hotkey-toggles

Here i got it for You:

Name: Toggle_Template
Description: Toggle_Template
Category: User
Command: toggle -te
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - <



Name: Toggle_Grid
Description: Toggle_Grid
Category: User
Command: $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") {
modelEditor -e -grid ( !`modelEditor -q -grid $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; }
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - y



Name: Toggle__X_Ray
Description: Toggle__X_Ray
Category: User
Command: $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") {
modelEditor -e -xray ( !`modelEditor -q -xray $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; }
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - x



Name: Toggle_Visibility_NURBS_Curves
Description: Toggle_Visibility_NURBS_Curves
Category: User
Command: $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") {
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves ( !`modelEditor -q -nurbsCurves $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; } ;
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - c



Name: Toggle_Visibility_NURBS_Surface
Description: Toggle_Visibility_NURBS_Surface
Category: User
Command: $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") {
modelEditor -e -nurbsSurfaces ( !`modelEditor -q -nurbsSurfaces $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; } ;rrentPanel` ) $currentPanel; } ;
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - v



Name: Toggle_Visibility_PolyMeshes
Description: Toggle_Visibility_PolyMeshes
Category: User
Command: $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") {
modelEditor -e -polymeshes ( !`modelEditor -q -polymeshes $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; } ;
Pref. Hotkey: CTRL - b



Name: Reveal_Selected_in_Outliner
Description: Reveal_Selected_in_Outliner
Function: Opens all the hierarchy in a Group until the selected Objects
All other Groups remain closed
Category: User
Command: outlinerEditor -e -sc 1 outlinerPanel1;
Pref. Hotkey: Alt - y

[dwalden74]

oops, sorry. I forgot the extra brackets after the first "if" statement, but you get the idea...

:beer:
david

[MasonDoran]

how does one toggle Isolate Select?

[dwalden74]

Looks pretty simple. Turns on showAllCommands in the script editor, and go from there!

:beer:
-david

[-wT-]

Originally posted by 2byts
how does one toggle Isolate Select?

This was a bit trickier than the other ones (Yup, I've made all those toggle's too ;)), but here are the few lines to add to a button or anything.


string $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel = `getPanel -wf`;

if (`isolateSelect -q -state $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel`)
{
enableIsolateSelect $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel 0;
isolateSelect -state 0 $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel;
}
else
{
isolateSelect -state 1 $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel;
enableIsolateSelect $theNameOfTheCurrentPanel 1;
}

[MasonDoran]

:applause:
awesome!!...i tried it myself...but i dont so much about mel
:applause:

[k2skier]

you can make hot keys for just about anything, a great way to find out the syntax or verbage for what you want to do is to do it with the menu's then look at the script editor and it should have all you need. Then you just go into the pref's and hot keys and set up a new one.

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