Maya Grid Shortcut

System · Oct 2011

Hey guys,

Does anyone happen to know add more lines to the grid in Maya (2011) without going to the Grid option box?

I'm watching the Gnomon's Environment Modeling for Games and the artist does it a couple of times while modeling.

haiddasalami · Oct 2011

Hmm could bound a shortcut key to mel command like this:

float $gridSpacing = 32;
float $gridDivisions = 1;
float $gridSize = 2048;
grid -size $gridSize -spacing $gridSpacing -size $gridDivisions;

$gridSize would be the length and width
$gridSpacing would be grid lines every
$gridDivisions is the divisions.

m4dcow · Oct 2011

I have wondered if there was a set hot key too, but could never find it, so I wrote this script.

The 1st snippet is to double the divisions.
The 2nd snippet halves the divisions, if the division number is currently 1 (lowest it can go) I double the spacing instead.

//Double grid divisions
int $gDiv;
$gDiv = `grid -query -divisions`;
grid -divisions ($gDiv*2);

 
//Halve grid divisions
int $gDiv;
$gDiv = `grid -query -divisions`;
//Divisions can't go below 1, so I increase spacing
if ($gDiv <= 1){
    int $gSpc;
    $gSpc = `grid -query -spacing`;
    grid -spacing ($gSpc*2);
}
else{
    grid -divisions ($gDiv*.5);
}

System · Oct 2011

whoa, thanks! These are really helpful.
I have both of them on my custom shelf, works great.

Silver · Oct 2011

m4dcow, thanks!

You can create HUD, to show the current divisions value of the grid?

haiddasalami · Oct 2011

Silver wrote: »

m4dcow, thanks!

You can create HUD, to show the current divisions value of the grid?

//Remove display if exists 
headsUpDisplay -rem GridDisplay;
 
//Procedure to grab values of grid
 
global proc int gridSettings ()
{
$gridDivisions = `grid -query -divisions`;
return $gridDivisions;
}
 
$block = `headsUpDisplay -nfb 0`; 
 
headsUpDisplay -section 0
-block $block
-blockSize "small"
-label "Current Divisions:"
-labelFontSize "small"
-command "gridSettings()"
-attachToRefresh
GridDisplay;

Didnt even know you could do this

Want to see if I can get it into the actual heads up Display box rather than creating one.

EDIT: Added to underneath UVs. Will wrap this into a function probably later this evening so you can put it in your startup file.

haiddasalami · Oct 2011

Just made the script into a mel file. Can download it here. If dropbox is blocked let me know will host somewhere else.

Save that in Documents -> Maya -> Version -> Scripts

Next add this to start up.

If you have a custom user startup just append

source GridHUD;

If you do not have one check Documents -> Maya -> Version -> scripts if you do have one. If you do just append source GridHUD; to the next line. If you dont follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to maya install directory
2. Go to Scripts
3. Copy userSetup.mel
4. Paste in Documents -> Maya -> Version -> scripts
5. Open with Notepad
6. Append this to the next free line

eval("source GridHUD.mel");

Save and run

Had to move the Grid Divisions to the next block as it was loading before the actual HUD stuff so taking their place. Still looking through the Startup stuff to see if I can find where they are declared

Silver · Oct 2011

haiddasalami, many thanks!

Visum · Oct 2014

I know this is old but could anybody help me to modify this so it adds divisions by 1 not doubles/halves it?
I have maya set up to grid lines every 50cm and major evey 100cm so I end up with 12.5cm grids and etc using the above script and I don't know how to modify it/

Maya Grid Shortcut

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