[Maya-Python] unlocking referenced nodes

[ynedelin]

hey all

does anyone know of a way to unlock a referenced node?

in particular an animcurve node?

yury

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[Brandon Harris]

isn't it like

import maya.cmds as cmds

cmds.lockNode(nodeName, lock=False)

Brandon L. Harris

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[Judah Baron]

You can't just unlock a node that was locked in a referenced file. Depending on what you want to do, there may be other ways of accessing the node. Can you describe your use case a little?

-Judah

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[Mark Jackson]

animCurves are locked during referencing full stop, I don't think
there's any way to unlock or edit them afterwards. It's a pain as one
of the things I often found is that you may want to reference in a
sequence, but shift the curve times round to suit. As far as I know
there's no way to over-ride this.

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[Mark Jackson]

Actually there is a mel global that can over ride the default locking
on a node type/attr basis. I've never run it but remember reading
about it when we first looked into a referenced pipeline.

getLockReferenceExcludedNodeTypes()
getLockReferenceExcludeAttributes()

theres a chunk in the manuals that go over it. Not sure if that's what
you're after or not

Mark

[yury nedelin]

thanks a lot for the tip

I will look into these scripts.

yury

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[yury nedelin]

I wanted to shift the time of the animcurve and I acctualy found a way to do it , not too pretty  but it works ,

I connect the time1 node to the referenced animcurve input attribute and add addDoubleLinear between the time1 plug and the animcurve and use it as the time-offset.

yury

[Ofer Koren]

Animation Layers might be useful here as well.

- Ofer
www.mrbroken.com

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[yury nedelin]

yes that's exactly what I am doing this for, animation layers.

yury

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