I am trying to make a simple "allign tool" in maya using Python script, and this is how far I got
import maya.cmds as cmds
selected = cmds.ls(selection=True)
for all in selected:
cmds.getAttr('Cube.translateX')
And this seems to get the X position of the object names cube in the scene, However I would like it to get the translate of any object I selected.
I hope someone can help out, thanks
In the string 'Cube.translateX', you need to have the selected object's name in place of 'Cube'. We do this by a simple string formatting here using the %s format:
import maya.cmds as cmds
selected = cmds.ls(selection=True)
for item in selected:
translate_x_value = cmds.getAttr("%s.translateX" % item)
# do something with the value. egs:
print translate_x_value
Hope that helped.
@kartikg's answer will work fine. As an alternative, maya's default behavior is to use selected objects by default for commands which need objects to work on. So:
original_selection = cmds.ls(sl=True)
for item in selected:
cmds.select(item, r=True) # replace the original selection with one item
print cmds.getAttr(".translateX") # if the name is only an attribute name, Maya
# supplies the current selection
This is useful when you want to do a series of commands on every object in the list, since you don't have to type the string formatter for every command. However @kartikg's method is easier to read and debug since you can check it by replace the command with a print statement.
import maya.cmds as cmds
objects = cmds.ls(sl=True)
for o in objects:
x_translate = cmds.getAttr(o + '.translateX')
print (x_translate)
