polysmith
02-15-2007, 04:49 PM
Hello All,
I'm not fluent in mel yet so I have not figured out how to make this common daily routine with a mel. I'd call it a camera switcher. I wanted to ask how other people thought would be the best way to make this mel. and where to store the variables.
The idea is that I could make a mel that I select a camera to view, click a mel on the shelf or hotkey it and - the panel changes to this camera and the playback range I have listed somewhere (like in the camera shape node notes) is automaticly is set.
First off, my process (open to advise here too).
When animating a story I have several cameras, like a [Wide, Medium, and Close-up] or with big projects [ shot_01, s02, s03, s04, ... s27, ect.]. Breaking the project into multiple files when there is alot of animation, not one file for each camera. For each maya file I make a render batch txt file of what camera name renders what payback range.
What mel I have are these 2 bits ;
look through selected
//modelPanel4 is normally the persp view
lookThroughSelected 0 modelPanel4;
string $selectedObject[] = `selectedNodes -dagObjects`;
// you will look through the first object selected
lookThroughModelPanelClipped $selectedObject[0] modelPanel4 0.001 1000;
lookThroughModelPanelClipped pCube1 modelPanel4 0.001 1000;
and set playback range (no use of variables yet)
playbackOptions -min 6 -max 29 ;
Sorry if this has been talked about already and thanks ahead of time.
I'm not fluent in mel yet so I have not figured out how to make this common daily routine with a mel. I'd call it a camera switcher. I wanted to ask how other people thought would be the best way to make this mel. and where to store the variables.
The idea is that I could make a mel that I select a camera to view, click a mel on the shelf or hotkey it and - the panel changes to this camera and the playback range I have listed somewhere (like in the camera shape node notes) is automaticly is set.
First off, my process (open to advise here too).
When animating a story I have several cameras, like a [Wide, Medium, and Close-up] or with big projects [ shot_01, s02, s03, s04, ... s27, ect.]. Breaking the project into multiple files when there is alot of animation, not one file for each camera. For each maya file I make a render batch txt file of what camera name renders what payback range.
What mel I have are these 2 bits ;
look through selected
//modelPanel4 is normally the persp view
lookThroughSelected 0 modelPanel4;
string $selectedObject[] = `selectedNodes -dagObjects`;
// you will look through the first object selected
lookThroughModelPanelClipped $selectedObject[0] modelPanel4 0.001 1000;
lookThroughModelPanelClipped pCube1 modelPanel4 0.001 1000;
and set playback range (no use of variables yet)
playbackOptions -min 6 -max 29 ;
Sorry if this has been talked about already and thanks ahead of time.