Getting world space full transformation

[nathan1347]

Hi,

I need to get full transformation in world space. For translation and rotation, I could use xform, but scale and shear can't be queried in worldspace. What I do now is to copy a transformnode, unparent it to world, and then query data. This works good, but is slow as hell.

I need this for my animation baking tool, where i store worldspace transforms for objects is complex hierarchies.

any tips ?

thx

[joojaa]

xform -q -ws -matrix;

Prettymuch gets you everything ever. Thsi said you should work on your exporters with the API really!

Thing is tough, even IF you could querry the shears and scales in world space it wouldnt really work out at all because youve lost the drections they use so you can nolonegr get at tgose components. Your only option is to decompose the matrix.

[nathan1347]

thanks!

I just found worldSpace matrix to be usefull, I just had to reorganize file structure a bit.

As to shears... it seems to be working good, I haven't seen any problems, and I run this tool for few years now. But maybe this is specific to my workflow.

PS. vertex cache part is in API, but transforms are baked in MEL - this is easier

[joojaa]

When you querry both share and scale it does work as combined they do have a meaning but isolated they dont so it doesnt make sense to allow asking either or. unfortunately both can not be done either.