Maya drawing override color

[Leffler]

That´s kind of a pain, have happend to me to. I guess you have applied the color override to the transform-node and not the shape-node? Because the transform-node gets overritten by the layer, that´s whats happening

Anyway, a workaround is to give the color to the shape-node instead. Here is a little MEL-script i wrote for doing this:


string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
string $shNoden[];

for($x=0;$x<size($sel);$x++)
{
select -r $sel[$x];
$shNoden = `pickWalk -d down`;
setAttr($shNoden[0] + ".overrideEnabled")1;
setAttr($shNoden[0] + ".overrideColor")13;
};

select -cl;

//13 = red
//15 = blue



So select all the controllers you want to be red, run the script.
Then to get them blue, change where it says 13 to 15 in the for-loop

If I remember correct I have even got into the position where the shape-node is also locked .... if that is your case, try removing them from any layer and then go into the hypershade and break there connections to the defaultLayer and then try again ...

Hope this helps!

// Otto

[Brac]

Thanks a bunch Otto! That totally worked! I didn't think to try changing the override color of the shape node! Brilliant! :applause:

-Ben

[Leffler]

Nice to hear, can be a bit of a pain with those layers. In these cases MEL totally rocks ... :)

// Otto

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