I wrote this to help with connecting either by constraints or direct connections different skeletons used for animation. Example can separate mocap animation from skin rig by using tool to constrain mocap skeleton to deformation skeleton. There are some cool stuff on namespaces, using search and replace in animation tools etc. There are probably still some minor bugs but Hope you find it helpful.
#na_AnimationConnect.py
#Author: Nathaniel Anozie (ogbonnawork at gmail dot com)
#Description: Set of tools to help with connecting different skeletons up.
#Useful for relating mocap skeleton to deformation joints, or relating skeletons with different namespaces by search and replace
#modify at own risk
#12-18-2014 added put rotate connections by search string - added my other animation connect tools into this module
#12-01-2014 created
import maya.cmds as cmds
def putAllConstraintBySearchString(searchStr = '', replaceStr = ''):
"""
puts translates,rotates constraint from somewhere else onto selected using search and replace string, it wont work with duplicate names.
"""
sel = cmds.ls(selection=True)
search = searchStr
replace = replaceStr
#search = 'TRC_1:' #that is this should be in name of our selected
#replace = 'TRC:'
for arg in sel:
#only if can find a source otherwise skip
#'TRC_1:LfFtHead'.replace('TRC_1:','TRC:') # Result: TRC:LfFtHead #
sourceName = arg.replace(search,replace)
if cmds.objExists(sourceName):
#print 'putting info on: %s from: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName
constraint = cmds.parentConstraint(sourceName,arg, mo = 1) #offset ON
else:
print 'skipping: %s, cannot find source: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName)
def putRotateConnectionBySearchString(searchStr = '', replaceStr = '', channel = ['rotateX','rotateY','rotateZ']):
"""
puts rotate connections from somewhere else onto selected using search and replace string, it wont work with duplicate names.
it wont work with source having different local axis than selected. it supports flexibility what channel to connect
"""
sel = cmds.ls(selection=True)
search = searchStr
replace = replaceStr
#search = 'TRC_1:' #that is this should be in name of our selected
#replace = 'TRC:'
for arg in sel:
#only if can find a source otherwise skip
#'TRC_1:LfFtHead'.replace('TRC_1:','TRC:') # Result: TRC:LfFtHead #
sourceName = arg.replace(search,replace)
if cmds.objExists(sourceName):
#print 'putting info on: %s from: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName)
for ch in channel:
try:
cmds.connectAttr( sourceName+'.'+ch, arg+'.'+ch )
except RuntimeError:
print 'Error putting info on: %s from: %s, using: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName,ch)
else:
print 'skipping: %s, cannot find source: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName)
def putPosBySearchString(searchStr = '', replaceStr = ''):
"""
puts local translates from somewhere else onto selected using search and replace string, it wont work with duplicate names.
it uses world space positions.
"""
sel = cmds.ls(selection=True)
search = searchStr
replace = replaceStr
#search = 'TRC_1:' #that is this should be in name of our selected
#replace = 'TRC:'
for arg in sel:
#only if can find a source otherwise skip
#'TRC_1:LfFtHead'.replace('TRC_1:','TRC:') # Result: TRC:LfFtHead #
sourceName = arg.replace(search,replace)
if cmds.objExists(sourceName):
t = []
t = cmds.xform(sourceName,query=True,ws=True,translation=True)
#print 'putting info on: %s from: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName)
cmds.xform( arg, translation = t, ws = True)
else:
print 'skipping: %s, cannot find source: %s\n' %(arg,sourceName)
##
def putLocalScaleAndTranslateOnSelected():
"""
put local info onto all but last selected (info: scale and translate)
"""
sel = cmds.ls(selection=True)
argList = sel[:-1]
lastSelected = sel[-1]
t = cmds.xform(lastSelected,query=True,ws=False,translation=True)
s = cmds.xform(lastSelected,query=True,os=True,scale=True)
for arg in argList:
print 'putting info on: %s from: %s\n' %(arg,lastSelected)
cmds.xform( arg, translation = t, ws = False)
cmds.xform( arg, scale = s, os = True)
##
def na_orientByNameSpace(nameSpaceDriver = '_13_asExport', nameSpace = '_13_asExport1'):
"""Given selection and two namespace get one thing to follow other via rotation. useful for getting mocap data and setdriven keys to work by having local channel info on joints that can talk with driven keys."""
sel = []
sel = cmds.ls(selection = True)
for arg in sel:
if arg.startswith(nameSpaceDriver) or arg.startswith(nameSpace):
#objStart = "_13_asExport1:l_wrist"
objStart = arg
### all this stuff is to convert our selection into something we can use
objDriver = ''
obj = ''
objNoNameSpace = ''
if objStart.startswith(nameSpaceDriver):
objNoNameSpace = objStart[(len(nameSpaceDriver)+2):] #plus for semicolon
elif objStart.startswith(nameSpace):
objNoNameSpace = objStart[(len(nameSpace)+2):]
objDriver = nameSpaceDriver+':'+objNoNameSpace
obj = nameSpace+':'+objNoNameSpace
###
if cmds.objExists(objDriver) & cmds.objExists(obj):
cmds.orientConstraint(objDriver,obj, mo=True, weight = 1)
#does not clean up if constraint already exists
else:
print 'Warning <<< Skipping %s, cannot find on Scene, check naming namespaces' %(arg)
else:
print 'Warning <<< Skipping %s, it does not have a valid name space' %(arg)
cheers,
Nate
