skin wieights at a UV position

[Todd Widup]

hey all, any good way of getting skin weights at a UV position (not a vtx) in python?  

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[vince touache]

I believe maya is using barycentric coordinates, that would be an easy way of doing what you need (although the "UVs" part is not mandatory)

[Todd Widup]

lol what I meant is how can you query the weight if given the UV position?  

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[vince touache]

you can get the polygon (as in "the face") at a given u and v, and from the polygon, you query the vertices. Once there, you can get the skinweights and barycentric. Or am I missing something?

[Todd Widup]

that would work :)

wasnt thinking about getting faces

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[Todd Widup]

ok so on this....I have my UV coord, there is no function for converting that to a face and the examples im finding ONLY cover using a map ID not a random UV position, additionally, the code example actually doesnt even work

import maya.cmds as cmds

import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya

 

list = OpenMaya.MSelectionList()

sphereName = "pSphereShape1"

planeName = "pPlaneShape1"

 

list.add(sphereName)

list.add(planeName)

 

sphereObj = OpenMaya.MObject()

planeObj = OpenMaya.MObject()

 

list.getDependNode(0, sphereObj)

list.getDependNode(1, planeObj)

 

sphereMesh = OpenMaya.MFnMesh(sphereObj) # errors out here with # RuntimeError: (kInvalidParameter): Object is incompatible with this method #

planeMesh = OpenMaya.MFnMesh(planeObj)

 

[vince touache]

1. don't override python keywords (e.g. "list")

2. are you stuck to api1 or is that ok to use api2?

3. Provide dag path instead of mobjects to your function sets if you can, that'll let you work with world space

Then, you could start with something like this (api2):

fnSphere = MFnMesh(MGlobal.getSelectionListByName('pSphereShape1').getDagPath(0))

u, v = 0.52, 0.52

polyIds, positions = fnSphere.getPointsAtUV(u, v, tolerance=0.00001)

it = MItMeshPolygon(fnSphere.object())

it.setIndex(polyIds[0])

it.getVertices()

I'm sure there are faster ways to do it, by working with triangles and not poly all the way long, but can't retreive the command off top of my head. But this should give you a good starting point already

[Todd Widup]

thanks vince, and that code was from the example I was building from...and I had changed it to not be list in mine, but was running into the same error

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