Kyle JM Baldwin

I was messing around with some rigs today, getting ready for some new animations for class, and an entry into this months 11 second club, when I discovered that the rigs were not working like I wanted them too.  I have a pretty set method to my workflow, and these characters were just not fitting in.  I spent some time digging around and looking at MEL scripting and I think I have figured out the answer. I really enjoyed that today… I can’t really say that I got anything accomplished with my actual animation, but I have saved myself some time in the future.  I really also do like every now and then distracting my right-brained self with something left-brained purely technical problems that have a definitive yes or no answer, nothing up for creative interpretation.

In any case… back to work!

How to make sure your rigs are reference/importing safe:

string $selected[] = `ls -sl`;
string $refPrefix;

//checks for referencing
int $isReferenced = `referenceQuery -isNodeReferenced $selected[0]`;

if ($isReferenced == 1){
	string $buffer[] ; // Create Empty Array To Hold Tokens
	tokenize $selected[0] ":" $buffer ; // Split $objectName by ":"
	$refPrefix = $buffer[0]+":";
} else {}

  string $CTRLname = $refPrefix + "CTRLname";

select $CTRLname ;