# Demon Project - Export Group Python Script
# Plots the local transformations of a group, then exports them out as a Action Clip
# By Peter Agg:
# peter.agg@googlemail.com / peteragg.co.uk

from win32com.client import constants as c

def Pickmodel():
	global Picked
	# Pick the model to work with
	Picked = Application.PickElement(c.siGroupFilter, "Pick group", "Pick group" )
	# Right-Click bomb out
	if Picked[0] == 0:
		Application.logmessage("Right button clicked, returning")
		return
	else:
		Application.logmessage(str(Picked(2)) +" was chosen")
		MakeClip()
		
def MakeClip():
	# The model of the group chose
	Modelname = Picked(2).Parent
	#Prompt the user to name the clip
	ActionName = Application.XSIInputBox ("Action Name", "Action Clip Name", "Action")
	Application.logmessage(str(Modelname) + ".Mixer." + str(ActionName))
	# See whether the action clip already exists - cheers to Atyss at XSI Base for how: http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=14;action=display;threadid=9773
	oColl = XSIFactory.CreateObject( "XSI.Collection" )
	oColl.Items = str(Modelname) + ".Mixer." + str(ActionName)
	if oColl.count > 0:	
		# if the clip exists as whether the user wants to delete it
		Query = XSIUIToolkit.MsgBox("Clip name already exists, delete old clip?", c.siMsgYesNo)
		if Query == 6:
			# If yes, delete the clip and restart the function
			Application.DeleteObj(str(Modelname) + ".Mixer." + str(ActionName))
			MakeClip()
		elif Query == 7:
			# If they don't want to delete the existing clip then exit
			Application.logmessage("Exiting script - Clip already exists")
	else:
		oObject  = oColl(0)
		# Select the group
		selection = Application.SelectMembers( str(Picked(2)), "", "")
		# log the in and out Playback times
		intime = Application.GetValue("PlayControl.In")
		outime = Application.GetValue("PlayControl.Out")
		# activate local marking
		Application.SetMarking("kine.local.pos.posx,kine.local.pos.posy,kine.local.pos.posz,kine.local.ori.euler.rotx,kine.local.ori.euler.roty,kine.local.ori.euler.rotz,kine.local.scl.sclx,kine.local.scl.scly,kine.local.scl.sclz")
		# plot, store and export the action
		Application.PlotAndApplyActions("", ActionName, intime, outime, "", 20, 3, "", "", "", "", True, True)
		Application.StoreAction(Picked(2),"", 2, ActionName, "", intime, outime, "", "", "", 0)
		path = Application.InstallationPath( c.siProjectPath ) + "\\Actions"
		Application.ExportAction(str(Modelname) + ".Mixer." + str(ActionName), path+"\\"+ActionName+".eani")
			
		
# User instructions:
Application.logmessage("Select enveloping group")

Pickmodel()