{"id":250,"date":"2008-09-05T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-09-05T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:00:12","slug":"change-layer-visbility-through-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Change layer visbility through script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to chage the layer visibility (or any other property) through Python script<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin-left: 40px; \">\nimport maya.cmds as cmds\nlayers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer')\nfor l in layers[1:]:             \n\tcmds.setAttr( '%s.visibility' % l, 1)\n<\/pre>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Wrap it up in a nice little function<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre style=\"margin-left: 40px; \">\nimport maya.cmds as cmds\ndef setLayersVisibility(value):\n\tlayers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer')\n\tfor l in layers[1:]:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\tcmds.setAttr( '%s.visibility' % l, value)\n\n\n\nsetLayersVisibility(0)\n<\/pre>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>If you want to get it to pretty much the same as the mel command (setLayerTo)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre style=\"margin-left: 40px; \">\nimport maya.cmds as cmds\ndef setLayerTo(attrib, value, selected=False):\n\tlayers = cmds.ls(long=True, type='displayLayer')\n\tfor l in layers[1:]:\n\t\tselectionStatus = cmds.layerButton(l, query=True, select=True)\n\t\tif(not selected or selectionStatus): \n\t\t\tcmds.setAttr( '%s.%s' % (l, attrib), value)\n\nsetLayerTo('visibility', value=0, selected=True)<br \/><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to chage the layer visibility (or any other property) through Python script<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,11,15],"tags":[54,41,56,58],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-maya-art","category-technical-art","category-tutorials","tag-maya-art","tag-python","tag-technical-art","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}