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scorpion007
06-21-2007, 03:52 AM
Hi, Is it possible to get the names of map channels through maxscript (The ones you see in the Channel Info tool)? I know the property exists, just not sure if its exposed to maxscript?

I.e. I can get the number of maps by:

a = meshop.getNumMaps mesh

and their associated information.. but what about the channel's name? That would be *really* useful :)
scorpion007
06-21-2007, 04:59 AM
Hmmm.. maxscript allows me to rename a channel or even a sub-channel, but not retreive its name. Strange. I hope I'm overlooking something trivial here...
scorpion007
06-21-2007, 05:54 AM
Ok, well I solved it by writing my own custom C++ maxscript plugin.

<string>getMapChannelName <node>node <int>channelID <int>subChannelID

All indexes are zero based.

which returns a string with the channel name, or an empty string "" if no name.

Works great :)
urgrund
06-22-2007, 03:04 AM
another whacky max script workaround...

channelName = getUserProp myNode ("MapChannel:" + i as string)
Where i is the map channel you want. Seems more logical if this sort of thing was part of the ChannelInfo interface, being able to return a Channel object with name, ID, Numverts... etc etc :)
scorpion007
06-22-2007, 05:29 AM
Ah, I didn't know you could do that in maxscript! I basically used the same method, but in the SDK, hah! (Note, my function can get subchannels too, but that would be trivial to add to your snippet, too)
I guess I did overlook it.

But how did you determine the name of the correct user property?
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