Is there a way to select objects by a shader

[mark_wilkins]

Shaders have associated sets of objects called shading groups that collect the objects to which the shader applies. If you find the shading group for the shader, you can query what's in it.

-- Mark

[Jozvex]

I think there's a button to do that somewhere in the Multilister too.

[chk]

Right click on the shader and there's option, "select objects with material"

[mark_wilkins]

heh sorry I was thinking about how you would do this in MEL.

-- Mark

[ktpr]

see Danny's UV tools at highend3d.com. Specificly:

eval("select -r " + $objList[$o]);

// Get list of shading groups on object.
$sgList = `listSets -type 1 -ets -o $objList[$o]`;

// Get list of all materials connected to shading groups.
$materialList[$s] = `connectionInfo -sfd ($sgList[$s] + "surfaceShader")`;

// select all faces with currently assigned material
hyperShade -o $materialList[$f];

cheers
ktpr

[tonytouch]

thanx a lot for this great MEL-assistance .

maybe light-years too late , but anyway , i was just seeking for this INPUT .....

[seven6ty1]

hypershade -objects $shaderName, I do believe.

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