Software:
Notepad++ 7.5.9
A lot of Python debugging frustration can be avoided by activating the ‘Show White Space and TAB’ option from the View > Show Symbol menu.
This view option displays yellow dots for White Spaces and yellow arrows for TAB indents in the script, and can save precious time locating places where the indentation is wrong.
Software:
Maya 2018
The following Python script iterates though Maya’s timeline frames, and for each frame creates a new cube, and aligns it’s position to the selected animated locator.
* There is probably a nicer way to set one object’s position according to anothers but haven’t found it yet (not finding enough examples of the cmds.xform command…) so sorry for that..
import maya.cmds as cmds
selection = cmds.ls(sl=1,sn=True)
for frame in range(1,80):
cmds.currentTime(frame)
newCube = cmds.ls (cmds.polyCube( sx=1, sy=1, sz=1), long=True)
posX = cmds.getAttr(selection[0]+'.translateX')
posY = cmds.getAttr(selection[0]+'.translateY')
posZ = cmds.getAttr(selection[0]+'.translateZ')
cmds.setAttr(newCube[0]+'.translateX',posX)
cmds.setAttr(newCube[0]+'.translateY',posY)
cmds.setAttr(newCube[0]+'.translateZ',posZ)
