Python for Maya artists - Part 1

[@Winxamitosis]

As a long time Maya user and also a long time python (or any) code avoider ("Dammit Jim, I'm an Artist, not a programmer!") , this is a great start to finally, maybe, getting into using python for useful stuff in maya. I'm now subscribed for updates. Thank you :)

[@william_chidube]

haha!

[@SteveFord3D]

good to see you guys, you look well. i'm going to try again to pound programming past my dyslexia.

[@tropicaltrevor]

Haha, nice to hear from you, I can recommend a lot of copy & pasting variable names!

[@MrMannmalik]

Wow, big fan of Perry.. Community will be thankful for doing this.. Appreciate it!

[@martinzetter685]

this is great thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@rbebut1]

Hi What version of maya are you using? And or if there is a version of python as well.

[@killivalavan3245]

You can use software to cut off this clipping noise in software like Adobe audition

[@himanshi869]

Excellent content! waiting for more ! :D

[@despairdidthatt]

great articulation

[@nando603]

Thanks a lot!!! 👏👏👏

[@focusmaya251]

Really helpful. Thanks

[@TheGreatArlei]

Hey guys thank you so much for this tutorial! I am stuck though and I think it might have something to do with the recent jump to Python 3? Translation does not seem to work as shown in the video. Any clues? Also, double quotations don't work on Strings (translateX) but single do. The console returns "# # RuntimeError: setAttr: No object matches name: p.translateX". The code in question: translateX = cmds.getAttr(myCube + '.translateX') translateX *= 2.0 print(translateX) cmds.setAttr(myCube + '.translateX', translateX) I'd appreciate any help and any resource I can look into. Thank you in advance!

[@TheGreatArlei]

The issue was resolved and the problem was as per usual something very dumb. I was multiplying my cube's x position (0) by 2...

[@diosleftcheek2012]

@@TheGreatArlei Im still getting error in the joining myCube with translateX area Error: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list # # Traceback (most recent call last): # # File "", line 6, in # # TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list Code: from maya import cmds myCube = cmds.polyCube(width=1, height=1, depth=1) print(myCube) cmds.setAttr("pCube1.translateX", 5) cmds.getAttr(myCube + '.translateX') any idea on how i might solve this?