Programming and animation

How to: Change the width for the first column in the table

Once questioned, how to change the width for the first column in the table component of the FBSpread class. It appears that it’s need to identify by the column index -1, like this:

<spread>.GetColumn(-1).Width = <value>

Renamer tool

Python tool for advance renaming objects in MotionBuilder. Script is developed under UIBuilder 0.6.5.

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Python. String operations

Quite often I have contact with the objects through their names, and accordingly I perform various operations with a text variable. Now I show several important things about strings in Python.

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UI Builder 0.6

I have updated UI Builder Tool for MotionBuilder 2009. Now It’s better and more stable!

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Python. Matrix operations

Continues the theme for the collection of useful mathematical functions for Python/C++ developers

The theme begins here - http://neill3d.com/math-library-for-developers

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UIBuilder 0.5 Released

The new version of the editor is now available. There are two new components, changes have also occurred in exports to the C + + format for OpenReality.

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UI Builder 0.4b released!

Tool for easier building UI in MoBu. This version purpose for Python users first of all. It has possibility to build tool with regions, visual components and events inside the UI Builder!

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Python. Writing to text file

Record some information to the file could be very usefull. For example, in order to debug or output statistics.

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UI Builder 0.3b WIP

Preparing a new version of the UI editor.

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How to… Extract actor pivots

The script should be run with the selected geometry of the actor (who does not know to do that, press Spacebar + Right mouse button on the actor Hips geometry model). The output will be a set of cubes with the name and position of the relevant part of the actor.

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