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# Find Empty Groups V001_01
# Select all transform nodes that have no shape nodes under them

if not 'pm' in dir():
    import pymel.core as pm
    print ('imported pymel')
else:
    print('pymel exists')

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'''
written by Patrick Woo (patrickwoo@yahoo.com)
20230309
version 001_02

change log
v001_02
- now the tool reports number of attributes and number of objects changed

This script compares values of each attribute with a "central value"

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# a short snippet that allows us to split a continuous list into sub-lists of N numbers
def splitList(inList, subListSize):
    '''
    splits a continuous list into sub-lists of N numbers
    inList - <list> a list of elements to split
    subListSize - <int> the chunk size to split inList into

    returns a list of sublists the size of subListSize
    '''
    a = list(range(12))

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@echo off

REM ------------------------------------------------------------
REM Written by Patrick Woo patrickwoo@yahoo.com
REM date: 20190927
REM version v002_01

REM This script creates an mp4 movie from the source movie file
REM The input movie can be of any format readable by ffmpeg
REM if DJV viewer is present, it will launch the viewer after the mp4 is created

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'''
Display Layer Toggle
Written by Patrick Woo patrickwoo@yahoo.com
20190625

Descrption:
    This Maya script creates a window with a huge button to toggle visibility of a selected Display Layer.
    An additional text field is present for the user to select the display layer to affect.
    Selection of the existing display layer is done by clicking on the text field and selecting
    from a popup menu, an existing display layer.

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from pymel.core import *
'''
In Maya, search for object transform nodes that has a name containing the search string inside the hierarchy of the currently selected objects
'''
srchStr = 'BigBranch'
select([x for x in listRelatives(ls(sl=True, type='transform'), ad=True, type='transform') if srchStr in x.name()])

# -- here's a single line version of the above, if needed for whatever
# srchStr='_geo';from pymel.core import *;select([x for x in listRelatives(ls(sl=True, type='transform'), ad=True, type='transform') if srchStr in x.name()])

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from pymel.core import *

'''
written by Patrick Woo (patrickwoo@yahoo.com)
This Maya script takes a source object and creates duplicates or instances, and for each target, 
move the duplicated/instanced source to match position, orientation and scale.
'''

def dupObjs(inList, dupMode):
    '''

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from pymel.core import *
from pprint import pprint as pp

'''
BakeMmCam
version 001_01
written by Patrick Woo (patrickwoo@yahoo.com)

This script 
- bakes a Maya camera's Translate rotate and focal length out, 

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from pymel.core import *

# an example of a working nested list comprehension
# this example is 2 levels deep

  '''
  -- Explanation --
  
  for each selected object, list all the connections of type 'animCurve'
  for each of the connected animCurve nodes, shortlist those with 'rotateX' in their names

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'''
connectAiLightFilters
Written by: Patrick Woo (patrickwoo@yahoo.com)
Version: v02
Date: 20190307

--- Description ---
This tool connects Arnold light filters (decay, gobo, blocker, barn door) to Arnold lights

This is especially useful when we want to duplicate many lights, which are all connected to the same