can the shrink wrap deformer be scripted in maya?

[e955...@gmail.com]

Hey there,

i was wondering if the shrink wrap deformer in maya can be scripted in python.

ive been looking everywhere online and i cant find anything about it.

could anyone help me pleeasee,

thanks,
Sam

[Paul Molodowitch]

The short answer is: yes, it could be, but you wouldn't want to (unless it's purely as an educational sort of exercise, or a prototype, etc).

The reason is that deformers are one of those things that you really want to be fast.  They can operate on meshes with a huge number of verts, and you can have a lot of deformers all chained together... and python is, by it's nature, orders of magnitude slower than C++.

However - if you're undeterred, and what you're looking for is just how to write a deformer in python in general, you can check out the yTwistNode, which is implemented in c++ AND python.  This can help you learn how to "translate" from c++ to python, as most of the documentation, examples, etc you will find will be in c++.

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[e955...@gmail.com]

thankyou elrond79!,

yes i basically want to add the command to a python script. there are alot of iterations of shrinkrapping i need, so i though best to just put some sort of command in a loop, rather than do manually.

thanks for telling me about twistNode.

Sam