Assign vertex number

[Nicool]

It is said it is not possible to renumber components (vertices, edges,..) in Maya's engine. Did you manage to do it?

[westiemad]

i am using a different method, which is crap and slow. I know its easy to do in houdini, but would look cool in maya, shame really. I was gonna change the face name, but this requires sorting of 2 arrays so they match with each other, and its been a long day where I got lost in the baking heat, so i'm not up to coding that tonight. At the moment everyface has to be queryied (sp), which is woefully slow.

[MCronin]

Why don't you just create a custom integer attribute and fillin the value at each face/vertex however you want and then just reference that attribute as needed? Does what you are doing require that you actually change the vertex numbers?

[westiemad]

Hello MCronin, long time no see. Ideally I'd like to re-assign the face number, I could reassign the face names, although this will take some sorting, and I might try it today. Its an amusing challange for me, so will give me something to think about. Its not do or die, I'm just trying to be clever :P. How are you by the way?

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