controller node

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The Controller node is a special type of set. It is used to gather together animatable attributes. These attributes can then be animated and edited in unison.

Controller sets may only contain animatable attributes and other keying groups.

Objects within keying groups can be designated activator objects. When a key is set on an activator object, it triggers keyframing of the other objects within the Controller.

Maya also maintains a global Controller filter preference which can be used to globally enable/disable all Controllers or to specify particular Controllers to be active. The category attribute may be used to designate a filter-able Controller type.

Node name	Parents	Classification	MFn type	Compatible function sets
controller	node	animation	kKeyingGroup	kBase kNamedObject kDependencyNode kSet kKeyingGroup

Attributes (6)

children, controllerObject, cycleWalkSibling, parent, parentprepopulate, prepopulate

Long name (short name) Type Default Flags

children (child) Message n/a

list children controller node.

controllerObject (act) Message n/a

Objects which is tagged as a controller.

cycleWalkSibling (cwsb) bool false

Indicate wether or not that left/right pickWalk should cycle within its children.

parent (pare) Message n/a

Controller Parent.

parentprepopulate (ppp) bool 1

Specify whether or not EvaluationManager will be prepoluated parent using keyable attributes on associated node object.

prepopulate (prep) bool 1

Specify whether or not EvaluationManager will be prepoluated using keyable attributes on associated node object.