Change layer visbility through script 05 Sep 08
How to chage the layer visibility (or any other property) through Python script
import maya.cmds as cmds layers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer') for l in layers[1:]: cmds.setAttr( '%s.visibility' % l, 1)
Wrap it up in a nice little function
import maya.cmds as cmds def setLayersVisibility(value): layers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer') for l in layers[1:]: cmds.setAttr( '%s.visibility' % l, value) setLayersVisibility(0)
If you want to get it to pretty much the same as the mel command (setLayerTo)
import maya.cmds as cmds
def setLayerTo(attrib, value, selected=False):
layers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer')
for l in layers[1:]:
selectionStatus = cmds.layerButton(l, query=True, select=True)
if(not selected or selectionStatus):
cmds.setAttr( '%s.%s' % (l, attrib), value)
setLayerTo('visibility', value=0, selected=True)
