When I'm working with a character that has a zillion morphs and I want to spawn a new morph from a magnet setting - I have to first zero ALL the other dials in the body part (apart from the Transform dials of course) which can take a long, long time.... I mean, a body part with 197 dials, you know.... going through all that looking for non-zero settings.
Can take a while.

Can Python be used to set all dials for a body part (or indeed for the entire figure - including fbm's) to zero, apart from the Transform dials?

:] Fish

Message edited on: 06/21/2004 11:21

Here you are:

for a in poser.Scene().CurrentFigure().Actors():
        for p in a.Parameters():
                if (p.IsMorphTarget()):
                        p.SetValue(0)

Essentially yes. The scale, rotation and translation dials are all accessible. There is a python script that generates a list of all available parameters for each body part of a figure. I don't remember where I saw it though. There are also a couple of scripts for identifying dials that are zeroed. If you can't find one drop me a message and I will send you one. regards

I thought it was suppoosed to do that? Not? Uh, maybe I just misunderstood the question, nevermind.

Oh, maybe so. In any case, both things are now available in the thread!

Um,, err, Ockham what happens to my figure when this script runs? It's gone from view and I can't find it

It zeroes all the scaling parms...

Yes, I noticed. I thought the idea was to just zero morph dials. A variation of this script to not affect scaling or trans dials would be really cool! Like Fisknose said, after spawning the new morph to reset 100 dials is very time-consuming. I add it to my wishlist.

I thought the idea was to just zero morph dials that's what my script does.

Thanks stew! Just tried yours and it errors on line 4 as invalid syntax. Sorry, don't mean to sound like I'm complaining, I think I'm doing something wrong. I obviously misunderstood what Ockham was doing with his script. I now see that your script is what I want to do, at least, and what I understood the question orignally. I just have to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks to both you and Ockham for all that you two give us newbies!

Python wants you to have a newline at the end of the script - just press enter after p.SetValue(0), then save. The script should run now (I tested it in P5, but it should run just as well with PPP).

Thanks stew! I appreciate it greatly!

I just deleted my script above since it;s obviously wrong. (I should learn not to post things quickly in the morning, before drinking sufficient coffee.)

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/

You're right. Actually I did remember that script, but I somehow got the idea that FishNose was asking for a script to zero everything except the morphs. So I wrote a quickie, which had the above-mentioned bad side effect.

It's the effort that counts as far as I am concerned! Thanks again Ockham, EnglishBob, and Stewer.

Um, perhaps a script to set all dials to zero EXCEPT scale channels which should be set to one.

Yes, I want to set everything to zero except the Transform dials - since I don't want to change the pose itself. Does zeromorphs set everything to zero, in ALL body parts at once, plus Body? (I'm not in a position right now to test it I'm afraid) Coolest would be a script that allowed you to specify: 1. This Body Part Only 2. All Parts 3. All Parts incl Body fbm's :] Fish

Ockham's script to Zero Morphs, zeros all the morphs. It asks you what Figure or part of figure. You supply the figure or body part name and it zeroed all morph targets leaving the trans and scale dials alone. I just used it in P5 no problems.

Uhhh....I have a Python script that duz MOR files. Why not just make a zeroed MOR pose?

I don't know why! I never thought of using that, but the script Ockham has works great so I guess it would work unless somebody knows a reason why.

Daz has a Python script that does this. ASk them. Maybe they will make it a freebie.

An MOR pose has to name the morphs it's zeroing explicitly, so it would only be good for one particular figure - and that figure would have to be unmodified (no extra morph targets added). The advantage of Python is that it can have access to all the parameters without having to know their names.