NOOOOB Nightmare

[swardson]

ok, so you dont want to use flatten here. You want to use that when you have selected multiple components and you want to list them seperately rather than the default grouping maya does to them. ie: pCube.vtx[1] pCube.vtx[2] rather than pCube.vtx[1:8]

as far as getting an objects shape node... the best way I have found to do is to do a pickWalk -d down; to move to the objects shape node. then just do an ls -sl to get it. I think there are better ways, but this is what I have done in the past.

hope this helps,

Brad

[JellyFire]

Thanks for your response.
I've sacked off trying to print back the result (only for testing purposes anyway)
and just implemented it into my code.

string $noName[] = `ls -sl -s`;
rename ($noName) circle;

that piece of script will rename the selected objects shape node to "circleShape"
which is exactly what I want, however, this won't work at all..

string $noName[] = `ls -sl -s`;
print ($noName);
nor
print $noName;

So I'm baffled, I don't understand why I can get it to work with rename, but not
with print, is it a glitch? Or am I writing wrong syntax?

thanks.
Jellyfire

[Marcel]

It does exactly what you want: it prints the names of the nodes you have selected that are of the nodeType 'shape'. Since you probably select your objects in the viewport it means you are selecting the transform, and not the shape (and hence it doesn't print anything).

You can check it by selecting an object, going to hypergraph and click 'show input and oupt connections' Select the shape node and run your script again: now it prints the name of the shape.

This is how I go from transform to shape:

// get shape from object
string $currentShape[] = `listRelatives -s -path $currentObject`;

The $currentShape[0] will be the shape node connected to your transform.

[john_homer]

I dont have maya here to test this.. but I'm pretty sure..
I'm assuming you are selecting transform nodes.

// print shape nodes of selected objects
string $sel[] = `ls -sl`; // get the selection(s)
for ($current in sel) // go through the selection and print the shape node(s) for each one
{
print (`listRelatives -s $current`);
}


edit: I guess we were typing at the same time ;^)
.j

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