Complete Maya Programming Volume II

1 6 CHAPTER 2. Points

Instead, the vector must be assigned in a component-wise fashion.

setAttr transforml.translate ($t.x) ($t.y) ($t.z)- // OK

2.7

C++ API

The C++ class for points is the MPoint class. The MPoint class is a homogeneous

point with four coordinates: x, y, z, w. Each coordinate is stored as a double. There

also exists a float variation of this class, MFloatPoint. The default constructor

initializes the coordinates to the following.

MPoint pt- // x=y=z=O, w=l

The point can be converted from a Cartesian point to a homogeneous point via the

homogeni ze

function.

MPoint pt"

pt.homogenize(). // pt = (w'x, ...