pymel.core.rendering.imagePlane¶

imagePlane(*args, **kwargs)¶

The imagePlane command allows querying of various properties of an image plane and any movie in use by the image plane. It also supports creating and edit. The object passed to the command may either be an imagePlane node, or a camera, in which case the command uses the image plane attached to the camera (if any). If no object is passed in, the current selection is used. Currently, most movie related queries work only on 64 bit Windows systems.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
camera / c		unicode
	When creating, it will try to attach the created image plane to the specified camera. If the given camera is invalid, creating will fail. When querying, it will query which camera current image plane is attaching to. If it has no camera attached to (free image plane), it will return an empty string. When edit, it will make the image plane attach to the new specified camera. If the camera given is invalid, it will do nothing. When the image plane is attached to a camera, the image plane’s transform node will be set identity. The detach command will not restore the original position of the image plane. but the undo command will restore the original position of the image plane.
counter / cn		bool
	Query the ‘counter’ flag of the movie’s timecode format. If this is true, the timecode returned by the -timeCode flag will be a simple counter. If false, the returned timecode will be an array of integers (hours, minutes, seconds, frames).
detach / d		bool
	This flag can only be used in the edit mode, when this flag is used in edit, it will detach current image plane from any camera it attaches to and make it a free image plane.
dropFrame / df		bool
	Query the ‘drop frame’ flag of the movie’s timecode format.
fileName / fn		unicode
	Set the image name for image plane to read.
frameDuration / fd		int
	Query the frame duration of the movie’s timecode format.
height / h		float
	Height of the image plane. When creating, if this flag is not specified, it will use 10.0 as default height.
imageSize / iz		int, int
	Get size of the loaded image.
lookThrough / lt		unicode
	The camera currently used for image plane to look through.
maintainRatio / mr		bool
	Let the image plane respect the picture aspect ratio. When creating, if this flag is not specified, it will use true as default value.
name / n		unicode
	Set the image plane node name when creating or return the image plane name when querying.
negTimesOK / nt		bool
	Query the ‘neg times OK’ flag of the movie’s timecode format.
numFrames / nf		int
	Query the whole number of frames per second of the movie’s timecode format.
quickTime / qt		bool
	Query whether the image plane is using a QuickTime movie.
showInAllViews / sia		bool
	The flag is used to show the current image plane in all views or not.
timeCode / tc		int
	Query the whole number of frames per second of the movie’s timecode format.
timeCodeTrack / tt		bool
	Query whether the movie on the image plane has a timecode track.
timeScale / ts		int
	Query the timescale of the movie’s timecode format.
twentyFourHourMax / tf		bool
	Query the ‘24 hour max’ flag of the movie’s timecode format.
width / w		float
	Width of the image plane. When creating, if this flag is not specified, it will use 10.0 as default width. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.imagePlane

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

        import maya.cmds as cmds
        // create image plane with width and height example
        myImagePlane = pm.imagePlane( width=100, height=50 )
        // create image plane with width and maintainRatio off
        myImagePlane = pm.imagePlane( width=100, maintainRatio=False )
        // create free image plane with look through camera specified.
        myImagePlane =  pm.imagePlane( lookThrough="persp")
        // create free image plane with look through camera specified let it only show when looking through this specified camera.
        myImagePlane =  pm.imagePlane( lookThrough="persp", showInAllViews=false)
        // edit image plane example
        pm.imagePlane( myImagePlane[1], e=True, w=100, h=200, mr=False ) ;
        // edit free image plane with look through camera specified.
        myImagePlane =  pm.imagePlane( myImagePlane[1], e=True, lookThrough="side")
        // query image width height example
        pm.imagePlane( myImagePlane[1], q=True, w=True, h=True ) ;
        // Create image plane with name
        pm.imagePlane( name="Foo") ;
        pm.imagePlane( width=100, height=50, name="Foo") ;
        // query loaded image ratio
        pm.imagePlane( myImagePlane[1], q=True, iz=True );
        // Create image plane under a specified camera
        camera = pm.camera()
        pm.imagePlane(camera=camera[1])