Newbie question

[mark_wilkins]

It's not silly at all.

To find the answer for this, I turned on "Echo All Commands" in the script editor and switched back and forth a few times.

Turns out that when you go to wireframe mode, Maya runs an undocumented built-in command called DisplayWireframe that then itself runs a MEL script that checks for whether you're dealing with a paint effects pane and handles that differently.

When switching to Smooth Shaded mode, though, Maya just uses the modelEditor -edit command.

For most panes, you can get away with using these commands to switch display modes to wireframe:


string $thePanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
modelEditor -edit -displayAppearance wireframe -activeOnly false $thePanel;


there are a bunch of choices you can put in place of wireframe with the -displayAppearance flag... these are listed on the manual page for modelEditor in the MEL command reference.

However, DisplayWireframe tests to see whether you're switching to wireframe for a paint effects panel and uses a different command for that, so if you're likely to be using this in a paint effects context you may want to use DisplayWireframe to go that direction and something like the above with smoothShaded as the displayAppearance to go the other way.

-- Mark

[loked]

modelEditor is the command you'll wanna use.

So for example if you wanted to turn on wireframe on shaded in modelPanel3, you type: modelEditor -e -wos 1 modelPanel3;

Check out the documentation for more info.

You'll also probably want to first check what modelPanel you are in and then save it to a variable and then use that, so you can use the script on any panel as apossed to just the ones specified at the end of the command.

Good Luck :thumbsup:
later:wavey:
loked

[greynite1]

PERFECT You are a God JEEZ I forgot about Echo commands well i guess thats why i'm a newbie. Thank you very much for your help. This is exactly what I needed.

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