Hide Shapes from Channel Box

[Dilen Shah]

Hey guys,

I have my controls on the rig, which has a few shapes under it, is there a way in python to hide specific shapes from channel box?

I looked into cmds.channelBox but couldn't find much.

Thanks in advance.

D.

[Marcus Ottosson]

The channel box respects the isHistoricallyInteresting attribute.

# Hide from outliner
cmds.setAttr("myNode.isHistoricallyInteresting", 0)

I can’t remember exactly what the various enums represent, but it’s something along the lines of.

0: Interesting to no one
1: Interesting to TDs
2: Interesting to Artists

And the UI then reflects this accordingly; i.e. not visualising them in the channel box but still returning them as a result of listHistory etc.

Best,
Marcus​

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[Marcus Ottosson]

Sorry, it says "Hide from outliner" but I meant channel box. This will not hide them from he outliner.

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[Dilen Shah]

Hey Marcus,

That works perfectly exactly what I needed, I can do this with inputs and outputs also so that's great too, but I have to do it individually for inputs, is there a way for all inputs and outputs in one go I can hide them in channel box?

Thank you.

D.

[Marcus Ottosson]

Sorry, not sure I’m understanding you. This will hide a specific node from the channel box. It the node is connected to the output of a particular node, or input shouldn’t make much difference.

What I typically do is just look through a selection of nodes and set their attribute accordingly.

from maya import cmds
for node in cmds.ls(sl=True):
    cmds.setAttr(node + ".ihi", 0)

That way you can graph it, in say the hypershade, select it and hide it that way. The hypershade will then also make it apparent which nodes are part of a output or input.​

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[Dilen Shah]

Sorry if I was not clear, well when I do it on the node it works fine individually.

Is there a way where all inputs and outputs are hidden automatically rather than on selection?

D.

[Cesar Saez]

This is great, thanks Marcus! :)

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[Raju buddha]

Hi.

it is great to know node.ihi attribute, as pre this we can all inputs and outputs at once. example make a poly sphere set it shape node's ihi to 0, it stops all inputs, outputs visibility in channel box. 

Thanks,

Rajubuddha. 

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Op dinsdag 24 februari 2015 12:10:46 UTC+1 schreef Marcus Ottosson:

What is the difference between 1 and 2? with 0 the node is not visible but with 1 and 2 it's visible.
Is there some debug setting in maya so you can switch maya between td and artist?

[Matteo Di Lena]

Hey all,

reviving this old thread as there doesn't seem to be a clear answer about 0, 1, 2 anywhere. From what I see it should be:

```

0: Interesting to no one

1: Interesting to Channel Box only

2: Interesting to Channel Box and Attribute Editor

```

Hope it helps!

Matteo