#Radiant Pickwalk Module

##Setup

1. Clone the repository somewhere on your computer, e.g. C:/SomeStuff/Repo
2. Edit the folder in the radPickWalkModule.mod file to match the folder from step 1
3. Copy the radPickWalkModule.mod file to Maya's modules folder (likely Documents/maya//modules)
   • If you don't know where the folder is run getenv("MAYA_MODULE_PATH") in the Script Editor
4. Run Maya, and go to Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in Manager
5. You should see radPickWalk.py. Click on "Loaded" and "Auto-Load"

Once you load the plug-in you can bind a key to the following command: from radPickWalkFunctions import make_pick_walk_ui;make_pick_walk_ui()

Now you can use the key to bring up the pick-walk UI instead of clicking on the shelf :)

##Usage Before you can pickwalk you need to mark up your scene with attributes that encode the spatial relationships between the nodes.

###Navigation To navigate use UP and DOWN. CTRL + UP/DOWN will add the node to the selected set.

There are no out-of-the-box keybindings for LEFT and RIGHT, but you can bind whatever keys you want to the "radPickWalkLeft", "radPickWalkRight", "radPickWalkAddLeft", "radPickWalkAddRight" commands.

###Creating Relationships Go to the RadPickWalk shelf and click the button to open the UI.

The general workflow is:

• Select a node and click the centre button to set it as the source node
• Select another node and click on the up/down/left/right button to create the relationship

For example, if you select node1, click the centre button, select node2, and click the top button then whenever you have node1 selected CTRL-UP will select node2.

To clear a relationship, select nothing and then click on the direction you want to clear.

Note: Creating a relationship like node1 -> UP -> node2 does NOT create a node2 -> DOWN -> node1 relationship. You've gotta do the work yourself.