Drawing Overrides attributes not working in pymel?

Coding
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I’ve been trying to find information about this for a while now. The only solution I found was using setAttr, like this:

asd=circle()[0]
setAttr( (asd.getChildren[0].name()+".overrideEnabled"), 1)
setAttr( (asd.getChildren[0].name()+".overrideColor"), 11)

Because this doesn’t work and neither raises any error (Maya 2012, pymel 1.0.3):


asd=circle()
asd[0].drawOverride=True
asd[0].overrideEnabled=1
asd[0].overrideColor= 11
asd[0].getChildren()[0].drawOverride=True
asd[0].getChildren()[0].overrideEnabled=1
asd[0].getChildren()[0].overrideColor= 11
asd[1].drawOverride=True
asd[1].overrideEnabled=1
asd[1].overrideColor= 11

Is drawing overrides the only way to colorize controllers (for animation) on Maya?

color(wada, ud=1) has a limited range of (user defined) colors… (And I wouldn’t want to change user defined colors, I think.)

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Try this instead:

import pymel.core as pm
asd, crv = pm.circle()
asd.overrideEnabled.set(True)
asd.overrideColor.set(11)
asd.getShape().overrideEnabled.set(True)
asd.getShape().overrideColor.set(11)

What you’re doing in the code you’ve presented is redeclaring the object’s Attribute objects as different types, so technically you’re not doing something invalid, which is why Maya doesn’t error.

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Thanks a lot Seth!!

Didn’t know about .getShape() also, quite handy! :smiley: