trouble with cmds clip

[Benjam901]

Hello all,

I am having a bit of trouble with creating multiple clips and applying them to a character set.

What I am trying to achieve is to have multiple clips on one character set for animated props. 

The user would create their clips in the tool I have set up and then exporting the prop would create a character set for the prop in question.

I then create clips using the start and end times the user has provided.

Problem I am having is when the user has more than one clip I need to leave the keys on the timeline so I can extract them again I do this using:

def createCharSet(ns='', selectObj='vh'):
 '''create character set'''
 char_name='char_'+ns
 cmds.select(str(selectObj),hi=1)
 char = cmds.character(name=char_name)
 return char

char_name= createCharSet(ns='test', selectObj='animated_prop')

cmds.clip(char_name, sc=1, name='clip_test',startTime=0,endTime=85, lo=1)

cmds.clip(char_name, sc=1, name='clip_test2',startTime=95,endTime=136, lo=1)

Using the lo=1 flag I get to keep the keys and make as many clips as I want....except using this flag offsets my animation in very weird ways and I am confused as to why this is happening. 

I have tried setting other flags such as allRelative, allAbsolute etc. to 0 but to no avail.

am I missing a flag or 2 that is helping me achieve this?

Cheers,

Ben

[Benjam901]

Fear not for I found a workaround.

I made a clip of the entire timeline and then duplicated it and resetting the start & end points for each clip

char = cmds.character(name='char_')
fullMin, fullMax = setAndReturnMinMax()
fullClip = cmds.clip(char, sc=1, name='clipFull',startTime=fullMin, endTime=fullMax)
fullClipName = fullClip[0]+'Source'

for clipName in propClipData:
 # Extract all the info we need
 timeRange = propClipData[clipName]['key_range']
 minKey = int(timeRange.split(':')[0])
 maxKey = int(timeRange.split(':')[1])
 # Duplicate the clip
 dupeClip = cmds.clip(char, name=fullClipName, d=1, sc=1, newName=clipName)
 cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.startFrame', minKey)
 cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.sourceStart', minKey)
 cmds.setAttr(dupeClip+'.sourceEnd', maxKey)
 cmds.clip(char, name=dupeClip+'Source', newName=clipName)
cmds.clip(char, rm=1, name=fullClipName) # remove the full clip leaving only our proper clips