beginners question

[jettam]

I'm really new to python, and I've been doing some tutorials on youtube.

This simple script makes a cube 10 times and stacks it 1 unit on top of itself. I want to know how can I make it stack 2 units ontop or any arbitrary number I give it?   

Thanks in advance. 

import maya.cmds as cmds

cubeList = cmds.ls( 'myCube*' )

if len(cubeList) >0:

    cmds.delete(cubeList)

result = cmds.polyCube(w=1, h=1, d=1, name='myCube#')

transformName = result[0]

for i in range (0,10):

    instanceResult= cmds.instance(transformName, name='%s_inst#' % (transformName))

    cmds.move(x,i,z, instanceResult)

    

[Ravi Jagannadhan]

In your loop, multiply i by your increment of choice. So, if you're trying to do an increment of 2, the cubes would be at:

x, 0, z

x, 2, z

x, 4, z

and so on.

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[Simon Anderson]

Hi jettam, 

the piece of code that is making your objects move incrementally is the:

for i in range (0,10):

    cmds.move(x,i,z, instanceResult)

if you want each block to move a specific amount per a loop:

offsetPerIndex = 2

for i in range (0,10):

    y = i * (offsetPerIndex + 1) # 1 represents the object size

    cmds.move(x,y,z, instanceResult)

[jettam]

Thank you.