Setting keyframes in one shot?

[Mark Jackson]

So I'm in the process of extending the poseLibs in Red9 to include animation data. 

We thought hard about whether to use Atom or fbx or some other format, but we've had issues with Atom in the past and I don't like the way they match data up. So I'm looking at writing our own format that sits along side the pose format, using all the same node matching logic etc. 

All is well, the key saver is fast even with dense data, but setting those keys back is still way too slow. Before I look at the api is there any standard way of passing a list of data and setting the curve in one shot, rather than doing something like:

for ktime, value, inTan, outTan in keydata:

         cmds.setKeyframe(chn, t=ktime, v=value, itt=inTan, ott=outTan)

where keyData = [(0,1,'auto','auto'),(etc etc etc etc)] and setting the key frames one at a time? 

Just wondering if I've missed something obvious or if the only way to get any more speed is to go to the api? Any pointers guys?

thanks

Mark

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Mark Jackson
CEO / Technical Director
red9consultancy.com

[damon shelton]

build up the data in an animation clipboard and then paste it in one shot

still using api to build up the anim curve data, but you do get all the fancy pasteKey options

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[AK Eric]

I've written a wrapper for the ol' Maya .anim format:  The Maya tool by default is selection order based.  But with a bit of metadata and coding our solution fully name based, supports namespaces, missing nodes on import, stores/writes non-keyed data, etc.  And since the heavy lifting (import\export) is done by the plugin via the keyframe clipboard, it's pretty darn fast.

I thought about doing a similar wrapper around atom (because ya, it has its issues), but we just haven't needed it, since what we have works so well.

[Mark Jackson]

looks like the animClipboard is a good way to go, thanks guys I'll take a look

On 15 January 2015 at 21:09, AK Eric <war...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I've written a wrapper for the ol' Maya .anim format:  The Maya tool by default is selection order based.  But with a bit of metadata and coding our solution fully name based, supports namespaces, missing nodes on import, stores/writes non-keyed data, etc.  And since the heavy lifting (import\export) is done by the plugin via the keyframe clipboard, it's pretty darn fast.

I thought about doing a similar wrapper around atom (because ya, it has its issues), but we just haven't needed it, since what we have works so well.

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