What’s Changed

Summary

Summary of changes in the Alias Python API version 4.5.0.

New

Python bindings to Alias C++ API

`assign_children_to_parent_layer`	Overloaded function.
`assign_nodes_to_layer`	Overloaded function.
`create_group_for_layer`	Create a group node for the specified layer.
`delete_all_construction_history`	Delete the construction histor for all the given curve on surface objects.
`delete_all`	Delete all the Alias Objects in the list.
`delete_dag_nodes_by_name`	Delete the dag nodes with the given names.
`delete_layers_by_name`	Delete the layers with the given names.
`delete_sets_by_name`	Delete sets by name.
`do_updates`	The do_updates flag is used to notify the system that you are finished performing.
`get_dag_nodes_by_name`	Returns a list of the dag nodes matching the given names.
`get_empty_sets`	Return a list of all empty sets in the Alias Universe.
`get_layers`	Overloaded function.
`get_layers_by_name`	Return the AlLayer objects found from the given list of names.
`get_locators`	Return a list of all AlLocator objects in the Alias Universe.
`get_locators_by_name`	Return a list of AlLocator objects with the given names.
`get_references_by_name`	Return the AlReferenceFile objects matching the given list of names.
`get_sets_by_name`	Get sets by name.
`get_shaders_by_name`	Return the Shader objects found by the given list of names.
`pick_all_locators`	Pick all locators.
`pick_all_layers`	Pick all layers in the Alias Universe.
`pick_layers`	Overloaded function.
`pick_locators`	Overloaded function.
`pick_nodes`	Overloaded function.
`pick_nodes_assigned_to_layers`	Overloaded function.
`pick_nodes_assigned_to_shaders`	Overloaded function.
`remove_references`	Remove all the AlReferenceFile from the Alias Universe.
`reset_pivots`	Overloaded function.
`search_node_is_template`	Search the entire DAG for nodes that are templates.
`set_layer_symmetry`	Overloaded function.
`unpick_all_layers`	Unpick all layers in the Alias Universe.
`unpick_all_locators`	Unpick all locators.
`AlGroupNode.add_children`	Adds an AlDagNode to the end of the list of child AlDagNodes.
`TraverseDagInputData.node_names`	Get or set the list of node names to filter the search results.
`TraverseDagInputData.nodeNamesInclusive`	Get or set the flag to indicate if the nodeNames filter is inclusive.
`TraverseDagOutputData.count`	Get the number of nodes obtained from traversing the DAG.

Updated

`search_node_is_instance`	Search the entire DAG for nodes that are instances.
`search_node_layer_does_not_match_parent_layer`	Search the entire DAG for nodes that do not have the same layer assigned as their parent node.
`search_node_unused_curves_on_surface`	Search the DAG for nodes that have unused curves on surface.
`search_node_unused_curves_on_surface_with_history`	Search the DAG for nodes that have unused curves on surface.
`TraverseDagInputData`	Input data for traversing teh dag.

Details:

Function search_node_has_non_origin_pivot() has new parameter reset.
Function search_node_is_instance() has new parameter expand.
Function search_node_layer_does_not_match_parent_layer() has new parameter returnParent.
Function search_node_unused_curves_on_surface() has new parameter deleteUnused.
Function search_node_unused_curves_on_surface_with_history() has new parameter deleteHistory.
Default constructor TraverseDagInputData has new optional parameters node_names, node_names_inclusive, node_types, node_types_inclusive, layers, layers_inclusive, shaders and shaders_inclusive.