I'm working with OpenMaya and I need to get the Euler rotation from a matrix but i'm getting an error while I launch this simple code:
code:
import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya
import maya.cmds as mc
crcl=mc.circle()
matrx=(OpenMaya.MMatrix(mc.xform(crcl,q=1,m=1)))
tMat = OpenMaya.MTransformationMatrix(matrx)
eulerRotation = tMat.rotation(asQuaternion=False)
error
Error: in method 'new_MMatrix', argument 1 of type 'float const [4][4]'
the problem is the OpenMaya.MTransformationMatrix(matrx), looks like is not accepting my matrix.
Any help?
MTransformationMatrix documentation
I'm sure is a simple fix that I'm missing
One way to get the matrix is to avoid going through the MEL command and use the OpenMaya API directly.
import math
# I'm Using `maya.api.OpenMaya` here since I'm testing on Maya 2019.
# Change according to your version.
import maya.api.OpenMaya as OpenMaya
import maya.cmds as mc
crcl = mc.circle()
mc.rotate(45.0, 10.0, 5.0, crcl)
# Add the circle to the selection so we can retrieve its `MObject`.
selection = OpenMaya.MSelectionList()
selection.add(crcl[0])
# Get the circle `MObject` and create a `MFnDagNode` from it.
obj = selection.getDependNode(0)
dagNode = OpenMaya.MFnDagNode(obj)
matrix = dagNode.transformationMatrix()
tMat = OpenMaya.MTransformationMatrix(matrix)
eulerRotation = tMat.rotation(asQuaternion=False)
# This should print the following (only differences would potentially be in
# floating point accuracy):
# [45.0, 10.0, 5.0]
print(map(math.degrees, eulerRotation))