Hive Commands

Hive Commands are subclasses of zoo.libs.command.command.ZooCommandMaya but are solely built around hive operation’s. Hive api is intentionally not undoable but we do have our way’s of making an operation undoable and that’s what Hive Commands are for.

The general workflow is to use the api directly for queries but for state changes use hive commands if a hive command doesn’t exist then create one see zoo.libs.command.command.ZooCommandMaya for more information.

createRig(name=None, namespace=None)

Creates a new instance of a rig or returns the existing one

Parameters:

• name – Create rig with string name, if empty hive will generate a new rig name

• namespace –

Returns:

renameRig(rig, name)

Renames rig to new name

Parameters:

• rig (zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig) – The Hive Rig

• name – New name as string

Returns:

deleteRig(rig)

Delete hive rig

Parameters:

rig (zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig) –

Returns:

createComponents(rig, components, buildGuides=False, buildRigs=False, parentNode=None)

Create components under the specified rig

Parameters:

• rig (zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig) –

• components (list[dict]) – [{“type”: “”, “name”:””, “side”: “”}, …]

• buildGuides (bool) –

• buildRigs (bool) –

• parentNode –

Returns:

deleteComponents(rig, components, children=True)

Delete components from rig

Parameters:

• rig – zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig

• children (bool) – If True will recursively delete all connected child components.

duplicateComponents(rig, sources)

Duplicate component

Sources takes the format of

[{“component”: component,

“name”: name, “side”: side, “parent”: parent}, …]

Parameters:

sources (list[dict]) – Components to duplicate.

updateGuideSettings(component, settings)

Execute update guide settings

showComponents(components)

Shows a component in the scene

Parameters:

components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – Hive component to show

hideComponents(components)

Hides a component in the scene

Parameters:

components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – Hive component to hide

toggleBlackBox(components, save=True)

Toggle Black box for components

Parameters:

• components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – List of components

• save (bool) – If True the black box state will be saved with the rig.

setComponentParent(parentComponent, parentGuide, childComponent)

Set Parent of Component

Parameters:

• parentComponent (zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component) –

• parentGuide (zoo.libs.hive.base.hivenodes.hnodes.Guide) –

• childComponent (zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component) –

setComponentSide(component, side)

Sets the component side (eg. L, R, etc)

Parameters:

• component (zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component) – The components to change.

• side (str) – The side the change the component to

renameComponent(component, name)

Rename component to new name excluding the side label

Parameters:

• component (zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component) – The components to rename.

• name (str) – The new name for the component

matchIKFK(components, state, frameRange=None, bakeEveryFrame=True)

Switches between IK FK while matching the transforms of the joints/controls.

Parameters:

• components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – The list of IKFK components to switch

• state (int) – 0 for IK 1 for FK.

• frameRange (list[int, int] or None) – The frame range to bake or None if setting the current frame only.

• bakeEveryFrame (bool) – When bake frames this determine whether bake every frame or update existing.

FixFkRotations(components)

Fixes the FK rotations on the specified components. This is necessary when the animator rotates off the main rotation axis ie. Z where the twist joints won’t compensate for.

Parameters:

components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – List of IKFK components to fix the fk mid joint rotations

recalculatePoleVector(components, frameRange=None, bakeEveryFrame=True)

Recalculates the pole vector for component which contain ik.

Parameters:

• components (list[zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component]) – The list of ik components to set the pole vector position for.

• frameRange (list[int, int] or None) – The frame range to bake or None if setting the current frame only.

• bakeEveryFrame (bool) – When bake frames this determine whether bake every frame or update existing.

setDeformVisibility(rig, state=False)

Sets the visibility of the deformation Layer of every component in the rig

Parameters:

• rig (zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig) – The hive rig instance.

• state (bool) – the visibility state to set too

mirrorComponents(rig, components)

Mirrors the provided components.

Parameters:

• rig (api.Rig) – The rig instance

• components (list[dict[:class:`zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component, bool, tuple[str], str, str]]) – A dict of components to mirror

Returns:

Return type:

components argument values:

list[
    dict[component :class:`:class:`zoo.libs.hive.base.component.Component` : The component instance to mirror.
    duplicate bool: Whether to duplicate then mirror or mirror in place.
    translate tuple[str]: list of axis to mirror translation on.
    rotate str : mirror plane "yz", "xz", "xy".
    side str: The newly created component side value.
]]

applySymmetry(rig, components)

buildGuides(rig)

Builds the provided rig guide system.

Parameters:

rig (rig.Rig) – The rig Instance

buildDeform(rig)

Builds the rigs Deformation Layer

Parameters:

rig (rig.Rig) – The rig instance to build

Returns:

True if the build succeeded.

Return type:

bool

buildRigs(rig)

Builds the provided rig instance Rig Layer.

Parameters:

rig (api.Rig) – The rig instance to build

Returns:

True if succeeded.

Return type:

bool

polishRig(rig)

Runs polishRig() on the provide rig instance.

Note

Currently this isn’t undoable.

Parameters:

rig (api.Rig) – The rig instance to polish

Returns:

Returns True if successful

Return type:

bool

saveTemplate(rig, name, components=None, overwrite=True)

Saves the provide rig instance and components to the template library with the registered name.

Parameters:

• rig (api.Rig) – The rig instance

• name (str) – The name for the template

• components (list[api.Component]) – A list of components to save, if None is provided then the full rig will be saved.

• overwrite (bool) – If True will force save the template even if the template elready exists.

Returns:

The Template path which was exported

Return type:

str

loadTemplate(filePath, rig=None, name=None)

Loads the provided filepath as a hive template and either creates or updates the rig.

Parameters:

• filePath (str) – The template file path

• rig (api.Rig or None) – If None a new rig with the provided will be created other the template will be applied to the provided rig.

• name (str) – The name for the new rig if rig is None

Returns:

Rig instance and a list of created components.

Return type:

tuple[api.Rig, dict[str, api.Component]

deleteTemplate(name)

Delete a Hive template based on the provided name.

Parameters:

name (str) – the Template name to delete

updateRigConfiguration(rig, settings)

Updates a set of rig configuration settings.

Parameters:

• rig (api.Rig) – The rig instance to modify

• settings (dict[str, value]) – The configuration setting name and value.

Returns:

True when successful.

Return type:

bool

setFkGuideParent(parentGuide, childGuides)

Re parents the children guides(first selected) to the parent Guide(last Selected)

Parameters:

• parentGuide (api.Guide) – The parent Fk guide for the child to re-parent too.

• childGuides (list[api.Guide]) – The child FK guides to re-parent

Returns:

True if successful

Return type:

bool

addFkGuide(components)

Creates a new guide for each provided node if that node is linked to a FKChain Component.

Parameters:

components (dict[api.Component, list[zapi.DagNode]]) – A list of components to show guides for

Returns:

True if successful

Return type:

bool

autoAlignGuides(components)

Realign all provided component guides. This includes realigning the rotations using the guide settings for autoAlign.

Parameters:

components (list[api.Component]) – The list of hive components which support twists.

setGuideLRA(components, visibility=True)

Sets all LRA shape visibility on the guides for the given components.

Parameters:

• components (list[api.Component]) – Components to set.

• visibility (bool) – Visibility state.

setGuidesWorldMatrices(guides, matrices)

Sets all given guide worldMatrices to the given matrices. This command will appropriately maintain all child guide transforms

Parameters:

• guides (list[zapi.DagNode] or list[zoo.libs.hive.base.hivenodes.Guide]) – The guides to set.

• matrices (list[zapi.Matrix]) – The matrices to set.

updateRigFromTemplateData(rig, templateData, remapData)

Updates the rig instance with the template.

It is important to note that this function will completely wipe out all meta-data for each component, except for the component meta node. However, all deform Joints will be maintained.

Parameters:

• rig (zoo.libs.hive.base.rig.Rig) – The rig instance to update with the template.

• templateData (dict) – The template dict which will override the rigInstance.

• remapData (dict) – The remapping between the rig and the template components