MEL: How do I make a will card selection??

[dwalden74]

Select the objects´shape nodes together and type:

listConnections -type "polySmoothFace";


Or to select all polySmooth nodes in the scene, type:

ls -type "polySmoothFace";


:beer:
David

[dwalden74]

listConnections -type "polySmoothFace";


Oops, this won´t make a selection though :wip:


So either do this (while shapes are selected):

select -r `listConnections -type "polySmoothFace"`;

or this:

string $smoothies[] = `listConnections -type "polySmoothFace"`;
select -r $smoothies;

:beer:
David

[alexx]

if you wanna be more dirty (and it presumes, that only the polySmooth nodes are not renamed and there are no other nodes called polySmooth):

select "polySmoothFace*";

but as mentioned: that is the dirty way..

davids way is more predictable :)

cheers

alexx

[MDuffy]

There are a couple steps you need to do in order to get at the polySmoothFace nodes. First of all you need to get the shape nodes rather than the transforms, because that's where the polySmoothFace nodes are hooked into. Then you can trace back the connections with listConnections. So you have something like this:

{
string $listSelection [] = `ls -sl`;
string $listShapes [] = `listRelatives -shapes $listSelection`;
string $listPolySmooths [] = `listConnections -shapes true -type "polySmoothFace" $listShapes`;

print "Selection\n";
print $listSelection;
print "Shapes\n";
print $listShapes;
print "PolySmooth Nodes\n";
print $listPolySmooths;
}

Hope this helps!
Michael Duffy
mduffy@ionet.net

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