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XAQT

05-01-2003, 10:19 AM

Hi,

When an object is selected, with the name "object_one", I would like to align it to "object_one_ORIGINAL". It's an universal script and all objects in my scene have a dummy named the same but with the suffix "_ORIGINAL".

$ gives me the current object, how to get to "original" dummy? I've been trying all sorts of things, but I can't pull it off. Hope someone can help me with this. Thanks.

magicm

05-01-2003, 10:52 AM

Originally posted by XAQT
$ gives me the current object, how to get to "original" dummy? I've been trying all sorts of things, but I can't pull it off. Hope someone can help me with this. Thanks.

try this:

-- get the object
obj = $object_one
-- get the dummy based on the name of 'obj'
org = getnodebyname (obj.name + "_ORIGINAL")

XAQT

05-01-2003, 11:06 AM

Thanks alot, that's exactly what I needed!

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