How to store an object by its type on creation?

[Kevin C. Burke]

Hello,

I'm missing something fundamental about retrieving objects by their node type and I could really use some guidance.

When I instantiate an object, I'll create the object and assign it a variable like so:

my_curve = mc.curve(name="my_curve",d=1,p=[(0,0,0),(1,1,1),(2,2,2)])

#print my_curve.getCVs(space="world") <-----my_curve is seen as a Transform, so getCVs doesn't work
curveList = pm.ls("my_curve")
print curveList[0].getCVs(space="world")

For some reason, the variable my_curve isn't seen as a NurbsCurve node (it's seen as a Transform), but when I use the PyMel list command, it returns an indexed object that is recognized as a NurbsCurve.

What am I missing? This would clear up a lot of my thinking about PyMel scripting.

Thank you!

[Justin Israel]

Is "mc" in this case "maya.cmds"? If so, you are getting back a string and not a PyMel object.

I am guessing what you really wanted is this:

 

my_curve = pm.curve(name="my_curve",d=1,p=[(0,0,0),(1,1,1),(2,2,2)])

... where you are calling the pymel curve() command and not the Maya commands module. This returns a Pymel object as you wanted.

Justin

Thank you!

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[Kevin C. Burke]

Wow. Very observant. That fixed it.

Thank you!!!

On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 3:43:35 PM UTC-7, Justin Israel wrote:

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:23 AM Kevin C. Burke <kevin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm missing something fundamental about retrieving objects by their node type and I could really use some guidance.

When I instantiate an object, I'll create the object and assign it a variable like so:

my_curve = mc.curve(name="my_curve",d=1,p=[(0,0,0),(1,1,1),(2,2,2)])

#print my_curve.getCVs(space="world") <-----my_curve is seen as a Transform, so getCVs doesn't work
curveList = pm.ls("my_curve")
print curveList[0].getCVs(space="world")

For some reason, the variable my_curve isn't seen as a NurbsCurve node (it's seen as a Transform), but when I use the PyMel list command, it returns an indexed object that is recognized as a NurbsCurve.

What am I missing? This would clear up a lot of my thinking about PyMel scripting.

Is "mc" in this case "maya.cmds"? If so, you are getting back a string and not a PyMel object.

I am guessing what you really wanted is this:

 

my_curve = pm.curve(name="my_curve",d=1,p=[(0,0,0),(1,1,1),(2,2,2)])

... where you are calling the pymel curve() command and not the Maya commands module. This returns a Pymel object as you wanted.

Justin

Thank you!

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