Question About Local Rotation Axes Display

[citruspastels]

I'm working on a scene with a ton of characters in it, all of which were imported and are now posed and starting to be animated.

The problem I have is that when imported them, the display of the local rotation axes was still on, so now I have a scene that is littered with bright, colorful "XYZ" displays. This somewhat obscures my view when I'm trying to animate.

Does anyone have any idea how I could turn them all off at the same time? I could go through one by one on EVERY JOINT in the scene to turn of the display, but that's out of the question.

Maybe there is a simple MEL script I'm not able to think about?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Cale

[user_deleted]

Do you have the ? (question mark) selected in component mode ? As this may be the problem ...

Guyb

[jacquesbroquard]

Hi Cale,
I am not sure there is a Mel Script for this particular problem, but a couple of manual solutions still do come to mind, that aren't too tedious.
Best,
Jacques

Method 01:
1. Enable the selection of Joints Only (spacebar marking Menu West>Animation Mask)
2. Click Drag Sekect around alll the Joints in the scene
3. Display>TransformDisplay>LocalRotationAxes

Method02:
1. Select the root joint of one of your skeleton setups.
2. Edit>Select Hierarchy
3. Display>TransformDisplay>LocalRotationAxes

[manuelito]

Hello!

There are two simple possibilities:

1) In the pane-menubar you choose "Show" --> "Handles". That switches off the display of the local rotation axes, or
2) A little handy Mel-script:

int     $i;
string  $obj[] = `ls -type "transform"`;

for($i = 0; $i < size($obj); $i++)
    setAttr ($obj[$i] + ".dla") 0;

That's all!

But my advise: Do that in the referenced scene to keep a maximum your reference clean. All changes that you apply on reference files in the animation file (for example) are stored in your maya scene file as "setAttr" and CAN produce errors.

Good luck!
Carlo

[citruspastels]

Thanks for the help! It's beautiful now!

I ended up doing the "Show" --> "Handles" solution because it was quickest but thanks for everyone's input.