topic Re: Execute python script on selected takes in MotionBuilder Forum

Execute python script on selected takes

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:08:03 GMT

Hello all,

Does anyone know how to access the selected takes via python script? I have a script I wrote that I would only want to run on selected takes. Ideally I would like to find the selected takes and iterate over them. Conversely, I would settle for a way to manually run a script itself only on the selected takes. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!!!

Re: Execute python script on selected takes

brissef2 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:46:55 GMT

Hi Senorsean32,

Here a sample script to iterate over all the selected takes, and prints its name:

for aTake in FBSystem().Scene.Takes:
    if aTake.Selected:
        print aTake.Name

Please let me know if it helps.

Best regards,

Francis

Re: Execute python script on selected takes

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:30:51 GMT

Thanks Francis. That totally helped. I actually solved it before you responded to me in a less efficient, newb way haha. I iterated through the components looking for the class_name to be FBTake. Your solution is much cleaner. I changed my code with it and it works great.

Thanks a lot for the incredibly quick reply too. I'll be sure to keep this forum in mind when I hit the python-mobu wall again in the future 🙂

-Sean

Re: Execute python script on selected takes

vdebaie — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:12:31 GMT

is there a way to have that sample script print an error if no takes are selected?

for aTake in FBSystem().Scene.Takes:
    if aTake.Selected:
        print aTake.Name
    else:
        print "no take selected"

this works, but prints it for every take in the scene. lol, thanks. :)

Re: Execute python script on selected takes

brissef2 — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:38:31 GMT

HI @vdebaie,

Here you go:

takeSelected = False

for aTake in FBSystem().Scene.Takes:
    if aTake.Selected:
        print aTake.Name
        takeSelected = True


if not takeSelected:
        print "no take selected"

Best regards,

Francis

Re: Execute python script on selected takes

vdebaie — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:41:22 GMT

Great! thanks!!!!