imported item's name?

[jtilden20]

Usually when you import a scene or create a reference it selects the objects that you just brought in. Therefore you should just be able to do an `ls -sl` immediately after the import/reference. This is what I usually do... dirty it seems, but thats the only way that I know.

[RonGriswold]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunatly the item does not seem to be selected when i do an import.

I have found an *extreme* hack to get around it, but its ugly. You can use the -gr and -gn flags to `file` to have the item grouped under a transform that you supply the name for. You can then get to the imported item, unparent it, then delete the group node... ugh.

[Segmoria]

Sounds like it should do the job.

An even more "extreme" approach would be to store all the objects/nodes in your scene into an array, import a file, store again all the objects/nodes into a new array and then compare those arrays, the difference ofcourse would be the newly imported objects.
But I can only imagine how slow this process can become in scenes packed with many items.

[technopriest]

your grouping solution is pretty clever.

i use a custom namespace when importing files so that i predict what the name of the imported file will be. the object names in the files i import are always the same as the filename.

[lucille]

This will return new root level nodes--which is gernerally what I want--
but the same approach could return other imported nodes


string $preImportRootLevelNodes[] = `ls -assemblies`;

//import command

string $postImportRootLevelNodes[] = `ls -assemblies`;

string $importRootLevelNodes[]=stringArrayRemove
($preImportRootLevelNodes,$postImportRootLevelNodes);

[RonGriswold]

lucille, that's perfect! Thank you so much.

ron

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