MVP - Maya Viewport API

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This module exists to unify and pythonify the various commands and apis necessary to manipulate Maya’s 3D Viewports. These include, hardwareRenderGlobal attributes, modelPanel and modelEditor commands, as well as some key features of OpenMayaUI’s M3dView class.

from mvp import Viewport

view = Viewport.active()
view.camera = 'top'
view.background = 0.5, 0.5, 0.5
view.nurbsCurves = False

Features

• Unified api for manipulating Maya Viewports
• Get or set every viewport attribute all at once. Making it easy to restore a Viewport to a previous state.
• Easily set focus and playblast Viewports. Much more consistent than using active view.
• Draw text in Viewports using QLabels.
• Show identifiers in viewports, making it easy to grab the correct viewport at a glance.

Get MVP

PyPi

MVP is available through the python package index as mvp.

pip install mvp

Distutils/Setuptools

git clone git@github.com/danbradham/mvp.git
cd mvp
python setup.py install

Table of Contents

• Guide
  • Getting the Active Viewport
  • Setting the Active Viewport
  • Manipulating Viewports
  • Copy a Viewport
  • Changing RenderGlobals
  • Playblasting
• API Documentation
  • Viewport
  • RenderGlobals