Code Snippet: Qt Dockwidget Tab Click Simulation

If you have used dock widgets in Qt, you may have docked with with tabs for easy stacking of other dock widgets. One handy feature of the tabs is when you click on the active tab, it will collapse the dock area and clicking a tab will expand it again. One thing however that...

Python version of sePushPullConstraint available

Well it seems I don’t post much lately and if I do, it’s mostly because I released updates to the sePushPullConstraint. So this will be no different! I have been getting more emails about getting the plugin for Maya 2015 on Windows and unfortunately I can’t compile newer versions due my out of date...

Code Snippet: Get geometry index on deformer

I needed a way to get the geometry index on a deformer based on the deforming shape name. Rather than trying to trace the connections in the dependency graph, Maya’s API has a much easier and faster method. This is also better than using the deformer command for the information since the command does...

Some free PyMEL code – makeNameUnique

In the spirit of sharing some handy scripts and tools, as well as pushing my vote toward PyMEL. I am going to try to post some handy code snippets to copy and paste for your own uses. This is nothing big or fancy, mostly just small functions that are good to have in a...

A taste of PyMobu

I mentioned before that I have been slowly working on an extension to MotionBuilder’s python classes that make things easier and add more functionality. I been playing with different ways to implement these features and I think I found the best way that makes it very easy to attach without reinventing the whole pyfbsdk...