pymel.core.modeling.closeSurface¶

closeSurface(*args, **kwargs)¶

The closeSurface command closes a surface in the U, V, or both directions, making it periodic. The close direction is controlled by the direction flag. If a surface is not specified in the command, then the first selected surface will be used. The pathname to the newly closed surface and the name of the resulting dependency node are returned. This command also handles selected surface isoparms. For example, if an isoparm is specified, surface1.u[0.33], then the surface will be closed in V, regardless of the direction flag.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
blendBias / bb		float
	Skew the result toward the first or the second surface depending on the blend value being smaller or larger than 0.5. Default:0.5
blendKnotInsertion / bki		bool
	If set to true, insert a knot in one of the original surfaces (relative position given by the parameter attribute below) in order to produce a slightly different effect. Default:false
caching / cch		bool
	Toggle caching for all attributes so that no recomputation is needed
constructionHistory / ch		bool
	Turn the construction history on or off.
direction / d		int
	The direction in which to close: 0 - U, 1 - V, 2 - Both U and V Default:0
frozen / fzn		bool
name / n		unicode
	Sets the name of the newly-created node. If it contains namespace path, the new node will be created under the specified namespace; if the namespace does not exist, it will be created.
nodeState / nds		int
	Maya dependency nodes have 6 possible states. The Normal (0), HasNoEffect (1), and Blocking (2)states can be used to alter how the graph is evaluated. The Waiting-Normal (3), Waiting-HasNoEffect (4), Waiting-Blocking (5)are for internal use only. They temporarily shut off parts of the graph during interaction (e.g., manipulation). The understanding is that once the operation is done, the state will be reset appropriately, e.g. Waiting-Blockingwill reset back to Blocking. The Normaland Blockingcases apply to all nodes, while HasNoEffectis node specific; many nodes do not support this option. Plug-ins store state in the MPxNode::stateattribute. Anyone can set it or check this attribute. Additional details about each of these 3 states follow. StateDescriptionNormalThe normal node state. This is the default.HasNoEffectThe HasNoEffectoption (a.k.a. pass-through), is used in cases where there is an operation on an input producing an output of the same data type. Nearly all deformers support this state, as do a few other nodes. As stated earlier, it is not supported by all nodes. Its typical to implement support for the HasNoEffectstate in the nodes compute method and to perform appropriate operations. Plug-ins can also support HasNoEffect. The usual implementation of this state is to copy the input directly to the matching output without applying the algorithm in the node. For deformers, applying this state leaves the input geometry undeformed on the output. BlockingThis is implemented in the depend node base class and applies to all nodes. Blockingis applied during the evaluation phase to connections. An evaluation request to a blocked connection will return as failures, causing the destination plug to retain its current value. Dirty propagation is indirectly affected by this state since blocked connections are never cleaned. When a node is set to Blockingthe behavior is supposed to be the same as if all outgoing connections were broken. As long as nobody requests evaluation of the blocked node directly it wont evaluate after that. Note that a blocked node will still respond to getAttrrequests but a getAttron a downstream node will not reevaluate the blocked node. Setting the root transform of a hierarchy to Blockingwont automatically influence child transforms in the hierarchy. To do this, youd need to explicitly set all child nodes to the Blockingstate. For example, to set all child transforms to Blocking, you could use the following script. import maya.cmds as cmds def blockTree(root): nodesToBlock = [] for node in {child:1 for child in cmds.listRelatives( root, path=True, allDescendents=True )}.keys(): nodesToBlock += cmds.listConnections(node, source=True, destination=True ) for node in {source:1 for source in nodesToBlock}.keys(): cmds.setAttr( ‘%s.nodeState’ % node, 2 ) Applying this script would continue to draw objects but things would not be animated. Default:kdnNormal
object / o		bool
	Create the result, or just the dependency node.
parameter / p		float
	The parameter value for the positioning of the newly inserted knot. Default:0.1
preserveShape / ps		int
	0 - without preserving the shape 1 - preserve shape 2 - blend Default:1 Common flags
replaceOriginal / rpo		bool
	Create in place(i.e., replace). Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.closeSurface

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.closeSurface( 'surface1', ch=True, d=0, ps=True )
# Closes surface1 in the U direction with history and by preserving shape.
# The name of the closed surface, and the name of the newly created
# dependency node are returned.

pm.closeSurface( 'surface1', ch=True, d=2, ps=False )
# Closes surface1 in both U and V directions, with history.  Closing
# the surface will not preserve the shape of the surface.

pm.closeSurface( 'surface1.u[0.66]', ch= True )
# Closes surface1 in the V direction, with history.  The direction is
# implied from the specified isoparm.