Hi there,

ok, here is a noobie question for you Python experts:

i want to have a way to toggle visibility on multiple handles at once.
i guess there are many ways to do it but i was thinkg of : creating a custom property on a ‘master ctrl’ object. this property will be ‘action’ type which will trigger a script though the relations/script device.

i have to do it through python since visibility is not animatable for handles.

i want to turn off 2d and 3d visibility.

doing all this in 2009.

the major problem is two fold: i have no way of selecting the handle without creating one(the fbHandle class creates a new one each time) + visibility doesn’t seem to be exposed or isn’t listed in FBClass attributes.....

:(

help please

thank you.

GF

Hey,

Have you tried just selecting it, and changing the show property?

Try:

The handle needs a unique name though. There’s a bug that’s been bothering me where the handle will get renamed if you rename it’s follow object in the UI but it changes to a non-unique name matching the follow object…

If this isn’t what you’re looking for, let me know.

Kevin

Kevin O’Neal
Ubisoft
Montreal, Quebec

ok,

made some research and homework, here’s what i’ve got now:

from pyfbsdk import *
lApplication = FBApplication()

for h in FBSystem().Scene.Handles:
Vis = h.PropertyList.Find("Show Handles")
if Vis.Data == False:
Vis.Data = True

now i just need a way to break so the script will be a toggling one.(meaning if false, true, if true = false) in programming terms a sort of flipflop.

can anyone give me a pointer on this?

thank you very much. thanks from a very noob.