CGTalk - selecting using mel

pukvete

10-07-2005, 10:25 AM

I have a for-loop which creates 100 cubes. I need to apply a shader to each cube... how would I do that with sets -e -forceElement ShaderSG; any idea?

if I could select the cube that was recently created but I don't know how

shadingNode -asShader lambert -name Asteroids;
setAttr Asteroids.color 1 0 0;
sets -renderable true -noSurfaceShader true -empty -name AsteroidsSG;
connectAttr -f Asteroids.outColor AsteroidsSG.surfaceShader;

for ($i=0; $i<100; $i++)
{
nurbsCube -name "asteroid#";

// select the created cube here
sets -e -forceElement AsteroidsSG;
}

mhovland

10-07-2005, 12:44 PM

Try the modified code below.

shadingNode -asShader lambert -name Asteroids;
setAttr Asteroids.color 1 0 0;
sets -renderable true -noSurfaceShader true -empty -name AsteroidsSG;
connectAttr -f Asteroids.outColor AsteroidsSG.surfaceShader;

for ($i=0; $i<100; $i++)
{
string $cube[] = `nurbsCube -name "asteroid#"`;

select -r $cube[0];
sets -e -forceElement AsteroidsSG;
}

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