Constrain to different selected objects

[greatPumpkin]

try this: ( due to laziness i didn't add the weight flags back in to the parentConstraint command) this code should parent constrain an infinite number of objects to the first selected object. Not sure why you were creating a 'stationary' group null?


// Create the selection

proc makeDaConstrain ()

{

string $select[] = `ls -sl -l`;


for($i = 1;$i < `size $select`;$i++)
{
parentConstraint $select[0] $select[$i];
}

}

makeDaConstrain;

[nottoshabi]

GreatPumking, that was much easier then what I had in mind. Ok, now another question. How can I make the weight be diveded by the number of selections? So that the first selection and the last selection do not have the same weight on the constrain. So they dont all fallow with the same weight they will have a fall off. I was creating the Stationary so that they have something to be constrain to besidse the first selection to create the fall off fallow.

[greatPumpkin]

do you want fries with that? hehe, just kidding- this should do it, basically taking the amount of objects selected and dividing it by 1.0 to get a percentage value to pass to the constraint weights.



proc makeDaConstrain ()
{
string $select[] = `ls -sl -l`;

// the weight value needs to be delcared outside the loop since it's being updated to
// allow different values per object.
float $weight = 1.0 / `size $select`;
float $inc = $weight;

string $null = `group -em -n "stationary"`;

for($i = 1;$i < `size $select`;$i++)
{
string $con[] = `parentConstraint $select[0] $null $select[$i]`;

// get the weight attributes frmo the constraint
string $attr[] = `listAttr -k -ud $con[0]`;

// set the first weight attribute to our current value, and set the reverse value
// on the 'stationary' part of the constraint.
setAttr ($con[0] + "." + $attr[0]) $weight;
setAttr ($con[0] + "." + $attr[1]) (1.0 - $weight);

// this line increments the weight float value each time to get the
// varied falloff behavior
$weight += $inc;
}

}

makeDaConstrain;

[nottoshabi]

Ohhh wow dude. Thanks, and no I dont want fries with that. Is allready to much. You should of just wrote the division line. What does the size comand do?

[greatPumpkin]

hehe, no prob- the size command returns the 'size' of something, so for an array, it will return the number of items in the array, and for a string, it would return the number of characters in the string.

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