Hi all, I noticed there’s a “rivet.py” in rigbits folder, I assume it is for building ribbons, yes? If yes, how to use it?
The arguments says “mesh”, “edge1”, “edge2”, “parent”, and “name=None”, and I’ve tried manually input those variables, but it never worked. Is there something I’m missing here?
Please post the actual code you attempted, otherwise we can only guess!
Ah, right. Sorry. I’m not too sure how to do this. All I did was create a simple cylinder geometry, and save 2 edge loops into 2 variables. Then I try to run the rivet script. It looks something like this:
import mgear.rigbits
import mgear.rigbits.rivet
edge1_ls = [u'pCylinder1.e[33]', u'pCylinder1.e[38]', u'pCylinder1.e[43]', u'pCylinder1.e[48]', u'pCylinder1.e[53]', u'pCylinder1.e[58]', u'pCylinder1.e[63]']
edge2_ls = [u'pCylinder1.e[32]', u'pCylinder1.e[37]', u'pCylinder1.e[42]', u'pCylinder1.e[47]', u'pCylinder1.e[52]', u'pCylinder1.e[57]', u'pCylinder1.e[62]']
mgear.rigbits.rivet.create(mesh='pyCylinder1', edge1=edge1_ls, edge2=edge2_ls, parent='null1', name='test')
and it return this:
# Error: 'module' object has no attribute 'create'
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<maya console>", line 1, in <module>
# AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'create' #
But when I look at rivet.py, this first function is like this:
def create(self, mesh, edge1, edge2, parent, name=None):
self.sources = {
'oMesh': mesh,
'edgeIndex1': edge1,
'edgeIndex2': edge2
}
self.createNodes()
self.createConnections()
self.setAttributes()
if parent:
pm.parent(self.o_node['locator'].getParent(), parent)
if name:
pm.rename(self.o_node['locator'].getParent(), name)
return self.o_node['locator'].getParent()
And I thought if I can provide those arguments, I can build a ribbon with this rivet script. I also roughly went through the tutorial through this link >> http://jinglezzz.tumblr.com and I feel like, I must have missed something.
Thanks! I edited your post to include backticks ``` around your code, so it formats as code.
The rivet module doesn’t have a create function. The rivet class inside the rivet module has a create method. So you could need to create an instance of mgear.rigbits.rivet.rivet().create()
I don’t know, but I assume the edge arguments are supposed to be edges, not edge-loops. As in one single edge. But again, I don’t know!
A lot of scripts in mGear expect PyNodes, not strings. This example below isn’t working for me, I’m still getting an error, but it would be closer to something like this:
import pymel.core as pm
import mgear.rigbits
import mgear.rigbits.rivet
myNode = pm.PyNode('pCylinder1')
myParent = pm.PyNode('null1')
edge1_ls = pCylinder.e[33]
edge2_ls = pCylinder.e[32]
mgear.rigbits.rivet.rivet().create(mesh=myNode, edge1=edge1_ls, edge2=edge2_ls, parent=myParent, name='test')
I’m still getting an error. My error is:
// Error: RuntimeError: file /Applications/Autodesk/maya2018/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymel/internal/pmcmds.py line 134: setAttr: The type 'long' is not the name of a recognized type. //
/scripts/mgear/rigbits/tweaks.py line 167, you will find an example of the rivet code in action. It might help you find the correct syntax.I see. I thought it was a standalone object.
Thank you for clearing this, Miquel! Is there any plan to implement ribbons in foreseeable future?
no plans from me 
