select with MEL

[DataForge]

Select it directly by name. i.e. select effector1; (or whatever name was given to it). If you want to get the end effector name through mel you can do a query like so:

ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK;

[darkjedi1929]

select the IK handle and run this script:

string $selIK[] = `ls -sl`;
string $selEffector[] = `listConnections -type ikHandle $selIK[0]`;
select -r $selEffector[0];

try this out; I have a similar script back home. Unfortunately, I am not near a Maya workstation to test this script out, anyway will send you that script if this does not work.

[Biker]

First of all thx for replies.

With

ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK;

i get a result equal the name of the effector, but how can i select it? I tried to assign the script to a string variable with

string $eff = (ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK);

but i got an error...

This other script instead

string $selIK[] = `ls -sl`;
string $selEffector[] = `listConnections -type ikHandle $selIK[0]`;
select -r $selEffector[0];

simply don't works for what i need :sad:

what can i do?

[darkjedi1929]

whoops heh heh:D my mistake...... it oughtta be


string $selIK[] = `ls -sl`;
string $selEffector[] = `listConnections -type ikEffector $selIK[0]`;
select -r $selEffector[0];

as for this:
string $eff = (ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK);

instead of the brackets you should have used the tilde key, i.e. ` this symbol. Like so:

string $eff = `ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK`; and then
select $eff;

[thematt]

would that works..select `ikHandle -q -endEffector LeftArmIK`;

it's not test so it's just a guess.

cheers

[darkjedi1929]

yup that would work too.........

[Biker]

Thanks all very much. It works perfectly! Bye.

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