Maya: Camera Image Plane

Setting a video file to a new camera

import maya.cmds as mc;

# Creating a new default camera

cam= mc.camera();

# Transform node of the camera

cam_transform= cam[0];

# Camera shape node

cam_shape= cam[1];

# Camera shape imagePlane attribute

image_plane_attr= cam_shape+".imagePlane";

# A video file

my_video_file= "my_video_file.avi";

# Applying a video file to camera's image plane attribute

image_plane_nodes= mc.imagePlane(image_plane_attr,fn=my_video_file);

# Transform node of image plane

image_plane_transform= image_plane_nodes[0];

# Image plan shape node

image_plane_shape= image_plane_nodes[1];

# Setting image plane type attribute to "movie"

mc.setAttr(image_plane_shape+".type",2);

To my knowledge, it ends up with disabled Image Number. (No expression is generated)

So, I studied through echoed all commands and decided to use MEL command.

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import maya.cmds as mc;

# Create an imagePlane node using createNode command

image_plane_node= mc.createNode("imagePlane");

# Setting image plane type attribute to "movie"

mc.setAttr(image_plane_node+".type",2);

import maya.mel as mm;

# MEL command string

mel_command_string= "AEimagePlaneBrowser \"AEassignImageCB "+image_plane_node+".type "+image_plane_node+".imageName\" "+image_plane_node;

# Execute the MEL command. A window to select a video file will be displayed

mm.eval(mel_command_string);

These still won't work properly.

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import maya.cmds as mc;

# Creating a new default camera

cam= mc.camera();

# Transform node of the camera

cam_transform= cam[0];

# Camera shape node

cam_shape= cam[1];

import maya.mel as mm;

# Creating image plane node linked to the camera

mel_command_string2= "AEcameraImagePlaneCommand "+cam_shape+".imagePlane "+cam_shape+".horizontalFilmAperture "+cam_shape+".verticalFilmAperture";

mm.eval(mel_command_string2);

# Setting image plane type attribute to "movie"

mc.setAttr(mc.ls(sl=1)[0]+".type",2);

mel_command_string3= "AEimagePlaneBrowser \"AEassignImageCB "+image_plane_node+".type "+image_plane_node+".imageName\" "+image_plane_node;

# Execute the MEL command. A window to select a video file will be displayed

mm.eval(mel_command_string3);

# Setting image plane type attribute to "movie"

mc.setAttr(image_plane_shape+".type",2);

Finally, created an imagePlane node linked to a camera with an expression.