shape node parenting

Published: 11 March 2020
on channel: Jarred Love

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Here's a quick video about dealing with shape nodes in Maya. Mainly parenting and reordering them.

I thought this would be a nice short video to do since I've never really seen anyone mention reordering control curve shape nodes for better pickwalking in an fk chain of controls in tutorial videos. I also threw in a bit of explanation of the fundamental principle of what shape nodes in Maya are in order to understand their behavior a little better.

Here's the code snippet I use in the video:

import maya.cmds as mc
for ctrl in mc.ls(sl=True):
for shp in mc.listRelatives(ctrl, s=True):
mc.reorder(shp, back=True)

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