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How to query RenderView's current camera?
Hi, is it possible to query this exact value in MEL somehow? Surely Maya is storing this setting somewhere! -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
Yeah that's pretty much the only way I know and annoying too :P Maybe you can see if you can query the hudnames. -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
ah your talking about where it says the camera name in the bottom middle of hte hud? ya guess i could figure out what section of the hud that is in and query for the contents. Thanks EDIT: @haiddasalami that may not be possible the maya.cmds.headsUpDisplay() command requires the hud objects name as a argument, and i don't… -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
Sorry guys, I don't get email from this board and long weekend here, but thanks for the pointers, will dive into some of these scripts. Really appreciate the help! :) -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
string $cameras[] = `ls -cameras`;for ($camera in $cameras) { int $isRenderable = `getAttr ($camera+".renderable")`; if ($isRenderable == 1){ //Do whatever you want here print $camera; }} Damn rusty as hell in MEL now haha. Basically each camera has a renderable flag. -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
ya think i will stick to my method when i know the user will have the viewport as the active pane. since to accomplish that via python mel.eval() needs to be used to get the global variable that is needed. my script that im using this with is a zbrush style viewport snap, so it actually is a safe assumption that it is… -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
global proc string findNewCurrentModelView() { global string $gMainPane; string $mainPaneCtls[]; string $visPanels[]; string $panelName; string $panelCtl, $edCtl; string $modelEd; int $nArr; int $i; string $newViewFound; string $newView; // // First try to find something in the main pane. // if ($gMainPane != "") {… -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
@haiddasalami is there anything similar for the camera used as the viewport camera? currently i have to do this hack job import maya.cmds as cmdsdef getCurrentCamera(): ''' gets the current maya viewport camera ''' pan = cmds.getPanel(wf=True) cam = cmds.modelPanel(pan, q=True, camera=True) return camdef… -
Re: How to query RenderView's current camera?
no good way but here is a really hackish way. edit: will have to post later for you appeenty my phone can't copy and paste python and have it formatted correctly. it is still a big hack job to do since you are actually quwrory the viewport ui element.
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