What would be the way to ensure each new camera has some default settings applied? Specifically gate settings. Probably possible with a scriptJob node, but maybe it's burried somewhere in files ? I can easily override menu commands, but this wont work with createNode or camera commands.
-Michal
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michalf
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Ok, I looked into factory MEL files, and decided to put some optionVar into my userSetup.mel
optionVar -floatValue cameraHorizAper 0.98;
optionVar -floatValue cameraVertAper 0.735;
optionVar -intValue cameraFilmFitMode 1;
This doesn't work with createNode, but it's a starter.
Julian Mann
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You could put a scriptJob in your userSetup.mel;
scriptJob -event DagObjectCreated "checkCams(`ls -cameras`)";
I don't think there's a simple way to know what camera was created. "ls -cameras" doesn't return them in the order they were created.
Also, if you put more than one creation command in a script it will still only fire once. For example:
createNode camera;
createNode camera;
createNode camera;
So its probably best to check all the cameras each time it fires.