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AWAKE
11-24-2002, 07:58 AM
Anyone know of a way to wildcard objects and attrs to change values?


I have a list of objects each with different names (sequential) and I'm trying to change values of the attributes in each to the same value, but I'm getting an object not found error in my really pathetic mel "pasting"


I select obects --> select -r "*Constraint1";


Then I want to change the attrs, but the wildcard doesn't work right..


setAttr "*Constraint1.*_SPLW2" 0;

I'm using the wildcard because the attributes have similar names. They vary slightly.
Maybe there's another way to type it in there. Or a script that does it. The Trick is the attributes have similar names. Not exact.
MDuffy
11-25-2002, 04:29 PM
You are probably going to have to write a script to iterate through and find the object and attributes that need changing. You can find the objects by using something like

string $listObjects [] = `ls "Constraint1"`;

for ($objCurr in $listObjects)
{
// search for and change your attributes.
...
}

Then for the attribute searching you'd need something like

string $listAttribs = `listAttr $objCurr`;
for ($strCurrAttrib in $listAttribs)
{
if (`gmatch $strCurrAttrib "*_SPLW2"`)
{
setAttr ($objCurr + "." + $strCurrAttrib) 0;
}
}


Note that I'm just typing this off the top of my head, so no promises to it being bug free. (^_^)


Hope this helps,
Michael Duffy
mduffy@ionet.net
AWAKE
11-26-2002, 09:04 AM
Yo!

Mel off the top? Thanks alot man...


I'll give it a shot!




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