visibility_check

source.Maya.misc_tools.visibility_check(obj)

check the visibility of given objects

Note

There is multiple way in maya to make an object invisible this function should be able to return the visibility state in most cases.

Example:

import Maya.misc_tools as mtools

visible_object = []
invisible_object = []

objects = ['Psphere1','Psphere2','Psphere3']

for object in objects:
    if mtools.visibility_check(object) is True:
        visible_object.append(object)
    else:
        invisible_object.append(object)

Parameters

obj (str) – object to be tested

Returns

The visibility of one object

Return type

Boolean