Equally Distribute Objects

24 March 2024

Usually used it in redistributing joints between a start and end point. There is Modify>Snap Align Objects but it doesn't seem to work on multi-axis.

# The last two objects selected will be the parent start and parent end

import maya.cmds as cmds

joint_list = cmds.ls(sl=True)
children_list = joint_list[:-2]
parent_list = joint_list[-2:]

count = len(children_list)

steps = 1.0 / (count+1)
perc = 0

print (children_list)
print (parent_list)

for child in children_list:
    perc += steps
    print (perc)
    constraint = cmds.parentConstraint(parent_list[0], child, weight=1.0 - perc)[0]
    cmds.parentConstraint(parent_list[1], child, weight=perc)
    cmds.delete(constraint  )