Long ago, the first time I read "The Pragmatic Programmer", I read some advice that really stuck with me.
"Don't Use Manual Procedures".
This in the chapter on Ubiquitous Automation. To summarize, they want you to automate all the things.
The trouble was that I hadn't much of an idea how to actually go
| import pymel.core as pm | |
| def set_all_aovIds(value, targets=None, object_type='alSurface', padding=2, attr_basename='aovId', number_of_indexes=8, use_selection=True): | |
| if not targets: | |
| targets = pm.ls(type=object_type, sl=use_selection) | |
| for target in targets: | |
| for index in range(1, number_of_indexes+1): | |
| try: | |
| new_value = '%s_%{PAD}d'.format(PAD='0' + str(padding)) % (value, index) |
