Description

Retrieves the local or world-space position of a node at the current time.

Functional area

Data retrieval

Command syntax

Syntax

getPosition "moduleName" [-ws] [-inSpaceOf string] [-preTrans] [-default]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`nodeName`	string	yes	The node to get position for.

Flags

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Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`ws`	0	—	inSpaceOf	Specifies that the worldspace value should be retrieved. The default is to retrieve local.
`inSpaceOf`	1	string	ws	The string passed in with this flag should be a module in the scene. The position returned is relative to the module passed in with this flag from the module passed into the command.
`preTrans`	0	—	default	Gets the pre-translation of the module passed in. Pre-translation can be found in the Attributes panel.
`default`	0	—	preTrans	This will retrieve the default position for the module passed in. The default can be viewed in the Channels panel by using the toolbar button with a d.

Return value

vector

Examples

// Get the local and world space position 
// of the rhumerus bone.
vector $localPos;
vector $wsPos;
 
// First the local
$localPos = `getPosition "rhumerus"`; 
// And then the world space
$wsPos = `getPosition "rhumerus" -ws`;
print $localPos;
print $wsPos;

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