import into existing heirarchy?

[VettoratoNode]

well, an alternative is putting the flag. returnNewNodes (for instance, string $newAddedNodes[] = `file -import -returnNewNodes $file`), this will return the names and fullPaths of all of the nodes imported.

[VettoratoNode]

well, an alternative is putting the flag. returnNewNodes (for instance, string $newAddedNodes[] = `file -import -returnNewNodes $file`), this will return the names and fullPaths of all of the nodes imported.

[Soulcialism]

yeah after consulting around, i don't think it's possible to force it into a currently existing heirarchy, so a workaround would be just to reparent the geo as a seperate part of the script i think.

thanks!

[dbsmith]

Mind you, you could always write your own MEL script that essentially manually places each DAG object correctly in the hierarchy based on searching for its corresponding names.

//Pseudocode - you'll have to tidy it up to make it work... A lot of this borrowed from a script in David Gould's book, available on his website. I guess since you can't have the same name twice in Maya, you'll need to work around this, perhaps by giving your imported hierarchy a prefix and stripping it when you come to compare them.


//Select rootNode of old hierarchy
string $rootNode = `ls -sl`;

//Select rootNode of hierarchy to insert into
string $newRootNode = `ls -sl`;

string $childNodes[] = `listRelatives -fullPath -allDescendents $rootNode`;
string $rn[] = { $rootNode };
string $nodes[] = stringArrayCatenate( $rn, $childNodes );

string $newChildNodes[] = `listRelatives -fullPath -allDescendents $newRootNode`;
string $rn2[] = { $newRootNode };
string $newNodes[] = stringArrayCatenate( $rn2, $newChildNodes );

for ($node in $nodes){
for($newNode in $newNodes){
if($node == $newNode){ //Compare names
//Get $newNode's parent transform
$tempParent = ...;
//Place node into hierarchy
parent $node $tempParent;
//May need to use inheritTransform -off $node to stop it from moving elsewhere
inheritTransform -off $node;
//break from inner loop
break; //???
}
}
}

Dunno, might work.

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