Changing An Attribute's Default Value

[phil-sloggett]

I have a clean-up script that deletes animCurves and for all Controls' attributes: it queries the default and sets its value to that. This does mean that an attributes default value now has significance, and sometimes(for whatever reason, often inheriting other peoples rigs) attributes 'default' default values arent ideal, but I cant find a way of changing them after the attribute has been added.

Short of deleting it and re-adding / hooking up any connections, does anyone know of a way of setting an attributes default value?

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Sloggo @ 06/22/09, 08:48 AM) [snapback]309880[/snapback]
Short of deleting it and re-adding / hooking up any connections, does anyone know of a way of setting an attributes default value?

Sav out as maya ascii and edit that,

[visualfx]

You can use the addAttr command in edit mode to change the default value to whatever you want

CODE
addAttr -e -dv newDefaultValue "object.attribute"

[phil-sloggett]

thank you both, great ideas.