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MotionBuilder comes with a great script that will place your selected character into a Character Track within the Story, I wanted to write one that would put all of the scene’s Characters into the story.<\/p>\n
Once again I will use the “Mia_Rigged.fbx” file to test my script. I created a NEW\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>scene and merged the\u00a0“Mia_Rigged.fbx” file twice into that new scene. I checked “Apply NameSpace” and then checked “Use New NameSpace”. For my NameSpace I used “Mia01” for the first Character and “Mia02” on my second merge.<\/p>\n Once I had both my Characters within my scene (Mia01 and Mia02) I did a very quick animation of them sliding back and forth through the world – this allowed me to have some test animation data to work with.<\/p>\n Now let’s start scripting!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n First we need to set up the script to find all our Characters within the scene and put them into a list.<\/p>\n Ok, above we have\u00a0some variables that we will be using as well as a simple script that will print “hello world!” once for every character within our scene.<\/p>\n Now that we have the Characters listed let’s put it to actual use and see what info we can get Python to tell us about our Characters.<\/p>\n So with the above script we found out:<\/p>\n The part to really take notice is the variable “lCurCharNameSpace”, note that this is much different from using “lCurChar.Name” and “lCurChar.LongName” which would give us different strings:<\/p>\n Now that\u00a0we have all of our Character’s info (more than we need, but that’s o.k.), let’s get to dealing with putting the Character’s Data into MotionBuilder’s\u00a0Story Mode.<\/p>\n We make the same type of list we used to get the Character’s info and we create a loop that will produce our Story setup.<\/p>\n The end result is a Python Script that will create a\u00a0Story Folder (labeled the same as the take that the script was executed on) and put each Character within the Scene onto their own Character Track (Labeled after the Character’s NameSpace).<\/p>\n The thing to really take note of is NameSpaces. If you do not have a NameSpace naming convention that you stick with then your pipeline will be impossible to maintain and at the very least the script won’t work. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Once you under stand all this is should be very easy for you to re-create this script to run on all takes (or even selected takes) within your scene. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n This was a really fun script for me to figure out.<\/p>\n I hope this helps.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MotionBuilder comes with a great script that will place your selected character into a Character Track within the Story, I wanted to write one that would put all of the scene’s Characters into the story. Once again I will use the “Mia_Rigged.fbx” file to test my script. I created a NEW\u00a0scene and merged the\u00a0“Mia_Rigged.fbx” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MobuPython_StoryScript.jpg?fit=1011%2C224","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pltq-4q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345,"url":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/finding-a-characters-namespace-with-motionbuilder-python\/","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":0},"title":"Finding a Character’s NameSpace with MotionBuilder Python","author":"admin","date":"April 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a snippet of script that I use a lot when dealing with Character's Name Spaces within MotionBuilder. 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Optics, Markets, strange NameSpace, etc. they all can bog down a scene. One of the first thing I do is save out the Character Animation and load it back into a clean scene. Using Python to save out Character Animation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Python"","block_context":{"text":"Python","link":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/category\/python\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_4059-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":528,"url":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/motionbuilder-python-clean-character-from-scene-with-fbdelete\/","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":2},"title":"MotionBuilder Python Clean Character From Scene with FBDelete()","author":"admin","date":"April 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a script that came about while researching and writing examples for my previous post on FBDelete(). 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<\/p>\n\r\nfrom pyfbsdk import *\r\nimport re\r\n\r\n# Variables --------------------\r\nlSystem = FBSystem()\r\nlScene = FBSystem().Scene\r\nlTakeName = lSystem.CurrentTake.Name\r\nlCurChar = FBApplication().CurrentCharacter\r\n\r\n# This variable will split "lCurChar" into only the first word before the ":" in the name = our NameSpace \r\nlCurCharNameSpace = lCurChar.LongName.rsplit(':', 1)[0]\r\n\r\n# the characters within our scene\r\nlCharactersInScene = lScene.Characters\r\n\r\n# story\r\nlStory = FBStory()\r\n\r\n# Print "hello world!" for every character within the scene \r\nprint "These are the Names of the Characters within your scene:"\r\nfor lCurChar in lCharactersInScene:\r\n print "hello world!"\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\nfrom pyfbsdk import *\r\nimport re\r\n\r\n# Variables --------------------\r\nlSystem = FBSystem()\r\nlScene = FBSystem().Scene\r\nlTakeName = lSystem.CurrentTake.Name\r\nlCurChar = FBApplication().CurrentCharacter\r\n\r\n# This variable will split "lCurChar" into only the first word before the ":" in the name = our NameSpace \r\nlCurCharNameSpace = lCurChar.LongName.rsplit(':', 1)[0]\r\n\r\n# the characters within our scene\r\nlCharactersInScene = lScene.Characters\r\n\r\n# story\r\nlStory = FBStory()\r\n\r\n# Print the total number of characters within the scene -----------\r\nlNumberOfChar = len (lCharactersInScene)\r\nprint "There Are A Total Of", lNumberOfChar, "Characters within Your Scene"\r\nprint "--------------------"\r\n\r\n# Print a range for the numeber of characters within the scene\r\nlCharactersList = range (lNumberOfChar)\r\nprint "The Characters Listed In The Scene Are:", lCharactersList\r\nprint "--------------------" \r\n\r\n# Print Names of all the characters within our scene --------------\r\nprint "These are the Names of the Characters within your scene:"\r\nfor lCurChar in lCharactersInScene:\r\n lCurCharNameSpace = lCurChar.LongName.rsplit(':', 1)[0]\r\n print lCurCharNameSpace\r\nprint "--------------------"\r\n<\/pre>\n\n
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\r\nfrom pyfbsdk import *\r\nimport re\r\n\r\n# Variables --------------------\r\nlSystem = FBSystem()\r\nlScene = FBSystem().Scene\r\nlTakeName = lSystem.CurrentTake.Name\r\nlCurChar = FBApplication().CurrentCharacter\r\n\r\n# This variable will split "lCurChar" into only the first word before the ":" in the name = our NameSpace \r\nlCurCharNameSpace = lCurChar.LongName.rsplit(':', 1)[0]\r\n\r\n# the characters within our scene\r\nlCharactersInScene = lScene.Characters\r\n\r\n# story\r\nlStory = FBStory()\r\n\r\n# Story Folder will be names after the take the data was one\r\nlParentFolder = FBStoryFolder()\r\nlParentFolder.Label = lSystem.CurrentTake.Name + " StoryFolder"\r\n\r\nfor lCurChar in lCharactersInScene:\r\n lCurCharNameSpace = lCurChar.LongName.rsplit(':', 1)[0]\r\n print lCurCharNameSpace+" is being processed -- "\r\n \r\n #Select your Character's Hips: \r\n '''\r\n MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW THE NAMESPACE OF YOUR CHARACTER!!!!\r\n "Mia_Ctrl:HipsEffector" is used because I know that the Character's hips are labled as "NameSpace:Mia_Ctrl:HipsEffector"\r\n You may need to edit the below line to ensure the script works for your Characters. Select the hips of your Character and see what is needed for you.\r\n Standardizing your Character's NameSpace will help you creat a fluid pipe line.\r\n '''\r\n lCurChar_ChrHips = FBFindModelByLabelName(lCurCharNameSpace+":Mia_Ctrl:HipsEffector") \r\n lCurChar_ChrHips.Selected = True\r\n lCurChar_Track = FBStoryTrack(FBStoryTrackType.kFBStoryTrackCharacter, lParentFolder)\r\n \r\n # assign our CurrentCharacter to the track\r\n lCurChar_Track.Details.append(FBApplication().CurrentCharacter)\r\n lCurChar_Track.Label = lCurCharNameSpace\r\n # Insert current take in the newly created track\r\n lCurChar_Clip = lCurChar_Track.CopyTakeIntoTrack( lSystem.CurrentTake.LocalTimeSpan, lSystem.CurrentTake )\r\n<\/pre>\n