Change Camera Marking Menu
This is a small tips for making marking menu for changing cameras easily. First copy the script bellow and save it as “bc_ChangeCam.mel” in any of your user script folder. Or you can download the script from here
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global proc string bc_ChangeCam(string $bcTo) { string $bcPanel; string $bcListCam[]; string $bcCurrentCam; string $bcCurrentCamIndex; string $bcCurrentNextIndex; string $bcCurrentPrevIndex; int $bcArraySize; int $bcCurrCamIndex; int $bcNextCamIndex; int $bcPrevCamIndex; $bcPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`; $bcListCam = `listCamera`; $bcCurrentCam = `modelPanel -q -camera $bcPanel`; $bcArraySize = size($bcListCam); $bcCurrCamIndex = (bc_StringIndexInArray ($bcListCam,$bcCurrentCam)); $bcNextCamIndex = $bcCurrCamIndex + 1; $bcPrevCamIndex = $bcCurrCamIndex - 1; if ($bcArraySize == 0) { return "No Cameras Created"; } if ($bcCurrCamIndex == -1 || $bcArraySize == $bcNextCamIndex) { $bcCamera = $bcListCam[0]; lookThru $bcCamera; setFocus $bcPanel; return "Changed to first camera"; } else { if($bcTo == "Next" && $bcArraySize != $bcNextCamIndex) { $bcCamera = $bcListCam[$bcNextCamIndex]; lookThru $bcCamera; setFocus $bcPanel; return "Changed to Next camera"; } if($bcTo == "Prev" && $bcCurrCamIndex != 0) { $bcCamera = $bcListCam[$bcPrevCamIndex]; lookThru $bcCamera; setFocus $bcPanel; return "Changed to previous camera"; } if($bcTo == "Prev" && $bcCurrCamIndex == 0) { $bcPrevCamIndex = $bcArraySize - 1; $bcCamera = $bcListCam[$bcPrevCamIndex]; lookThru $bcCamera; setFocus $bcPanel; return "Changed to previous camera"; } } return "Not Working"; } global proc string[] listCamera() { string $allCameraList[] = `listCameras -p`; string $cameraRemove[] = { "front", "persp", "side", "top"}; string $cameraList[] = stringArrayRemove($cameraRemove, $allCameraList); return $cameraList; } |
Now go to maya and open Marking Menu Editor(Window->Settings->Marking Menu Editor). Select CommonModelingPanes and press Edit Marking Menu Button.
Right click on North East Button(Or any button you like) and select Edit Menu Item. Enter the Label as “Next Camera”. In the Command(s) field enter the bellow script
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source bc_ChangeCam.mel; bc_ChangeCam("Next"); |
Save the button and marking menu. Now you can easily access your next camera in the screen from the modeling marking menu(like the image given bellow)
Hope this tip helps you… š
