Hi, noobie MEL question... Connecting Attributes

[benio33]

You cannot connect multiple objects to .ry value. It accepts only one datatype. Probably you ment connecting one controller value to multiple .ry values, and therefore I'd recommend using connectAttr put in a simple "for" loop.

Cheers.

[agredbeard]

thanks benio33!

I did try the "for" loop option. I'm not very experienced in MEL so I'm having trouble with this last desired option.

I'd like for the last selected object to be the one which all the other .rotateY attributes are connected to. So far I have:

string $mySelection [] = ` ls -sl `;

for ( $myNode in $mySelection) {

connectAttr tile181.ry ($myNode + ".ry");

}

So, I'd like to replace tile181.ry with a String which would be the last selected object's .ry attribute. How would I write that?

Thanks!

[jaydru]

But how can I connect the .ry attributes of multiple selected objects to pCube1.ry?

are you trying to connenect the sum of more than 1 attribute to the destination pCube1.ry,

eg. (randomNodeA.ry + randomNodeB.ry) -> pCube1.ry

if so you could try using a plusMinusAverage node so it would be like...

$plusMinus1 = `createNode plusMinusAverage`;

connectAttr -f nodeA.rotate ($plusMinus1 + ".input3D[0]");
connectAttr -f nodeB.rotate ($plusMinus1 + ".input3D[1]");
connectAttr -f ($plusMinus1 + ".output3D") nodeC.rotate;

if that is what your tring to do?


*edit

just actualy read your last post and that isnt what you want.

$sel = `ls -sl`;
for ($each in $sel)
{
if ($each == $sel[(size($sel) - 1)])
break;
connectAttr -f ($sel[(size($sel) - 1)] + ".ry") ($each + ".ry");
}

that should do it though

[Irakli]

If you try to connect last selected objects ry to other slected objects the you should write something like this

string $selList[]=`ls -sl`; //list slected object
int $numObj =size($losList); // get selected objects number
int $lastInArray = ($numObj-1); // get last object from list

//loop

int $i ;
for($i=0;$i<$lastInArray;$i++)

{
connectAttr ($losList[$lasInArray]+".ry") ($losList[$i]+".ry") ;
}

[Irakli]

jaydru wrote more correctly the code :)

[vvkonline]

all selected objects will be connected to last selected.



string $mySelection [] = `ls -sl`;
int $selectionSize = size($mySelection);

for ($i=0;$i<($selectionSize-1);$i++)
{
connectAttr ($mySelection[$selectionSize] + ".ry") ($mySelection [$i] + ".ry");
}

[agredbeard]

Thank you all for your replies!!! :buttrock:


JayDru - your suggestion worked and is achieving the desired effect.


Thanks again!

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