Using the blender API, I am trying to "Make Proxy" on a linked rig.
My first approach was to identify the linked objects through bpy.data.groups.objects and then use the bpy.ops.object.proxy_make() operator to make proxies.
However, this would make proxies for all linked objects (rigs, meshes etc.), when my objective is to do it only to the rigs.
Is there a way to identify the right objects to proxy? Alternatively, is there a better method to do the whole exercise?
The make proxy operator works only on the active object (it has to be visible). You set the active object like this:
import bpy objects = bpy.context.scene.objects objects.active = objects["Name"] If you don't know the name you can list all objects in the scene with dupli group:
ob_list = [ob for ob in objects if ob.dupli_group] You can specify what object inside the group to make the proxy of like this:
bpy.ops.object.proxy_make(object="Name_Of_Object_Inside_Linked_Group") If you don't know the name, you can list all the armatures inside the active object's dupli group:
armatures = [ob for ob in objects.active.dupli_group.objects if ob.type == 'ARMATURE'] The proxy object then becomes the active object. You can rename the proxy easily (otherwise it will carry the name of the linked group object):
objects.active.name = "Name_Of_Object_Inside_Linked_Group_PROXY" To complete this you also get the linked group object from a proxy object like this (if you need to know what the proxy is influencing and if the object is a proxy at all):
group_ob = proxy_ob.proxy_group 
bpy.ops.object.proxy_make(object="Name_Of_Object_Inside_Linked_Group") from script I got the famous bpy.ops.object.proxy_make.poll() failed, context is incorrect. I tried some context override but I failed. is there a way to make the override working or can we make proxy without ops at all ? $\endgroup$