This might be a rather complex question since it's possible a lot of you don't know the software that I'm writing it for: Autodesk Maya 2011. I am trying to speed up a tedious slow process (rigging: giving 3d characters the ability to move) by writing a script that does it automatically.
I'll try my best to explain the situation.
I have a script that takes an object, iterates through the children of that object, stores them in a list, then puts the initial object at the end of the list, reverses the list because it's the wrong way around, then puts the initial object at the front.
Issue: There are three different lists all of the same object TYPE but with different names and they are actually different objects. My goal is to connect them together by generating nodes called 'blendcolors'. But if I have a loop to generate them for each object in list A, then I need loops that also connect them to the objects in other lists and I can not figure this out.
Here is my code, it has been played with so is more incomplete than before as far as the actual loop goes.
import maya.cmds as cmds
def crBC(IKJoint, FKJoint, bindJoint, xQuan, switch):
# gets children joints of the selected joint
chHipIK = cmds.listRelatives(IKJoint, ad = True, type = 'joint')
chHipFK = cmds.listRelatives(FKJoint, ad = True, type = 'joint')
chHipBind = cmds.listRelatives(bindJoint, ad = True, type = 'joint')
# list is built backwards, this reverses the list
chHipIK.reverse()
chHipFK.reverse()
chHipBind.reverse()
# appends the initial joint to the list
chHipIK.append(IKJoint)
chHipFK.append(FKJoint)
chHipBind.append(bindJoint)
# puts the last joint at the start of the list because the initial joint
# was added to the end
chHipIK.insert(0, chHipIK.pop())
chHipFK.insert(0, chHipFK.pop())
chHipBind.insert(0, chH