Mesh Selection

[pgraham]

$theMeshes=`ls -sl -type mesh`;This will give you a list of all poly meshes selected. The mesh nodes must be selected, not the transform node containing the mesh. $theSelection=`ls -sl`;
$theMeshes=`listRelatives -allDescendents -type mesh $s`;This will give you all the poly meshes that are descendents of the selected nodes. It's probably the result you want.if(size(&theMeshes))
{
// do stuff
}
else{
// error message
}

[grantimus]

There is an even easier way to do it:



$sel = `filterExpand -sm 12`;

if(size($sel)){
//stuff to do if polygon meshes are selected
} esle {
//stuff to do if polygon meshes aren't selected
}



ok so maybe it's only one less line of code, but that still means less typing.

[sebwah]

...it's always so easy when you see it written!
thanks

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