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m.d.

04-09-2010, 03:48 AM

I feel kinda lazy asking this...

but i havn't played with mel for a while...

does anyone know of s simple script that would take selected shatter peices, and then assign each one an individual collision layer...

I tried writing one for a couple of hours, but it's been 5 years since i touched maya...

basically i know i would have to make an array from list selected

something like

string $shatterPieces[];
string $currentPiece;

$currentPiece = `ls -sl`; (but it would have to select the rigidbody node i believe)

for ($currentPiece in $shatterPieces)
{
setAttr (($currentPeice).collisionlLayer) ($shatterPieces[]);
}

basically something that would take the size of the array and iterate through assigning a collision layer based on the array index ect ect.

anybody care to help with syntax...it's been a while
thanks

bendingiscool

04-09-2010, 05:06 PM

slap that in a python tab... :)

import maya.cmds as mc

sel = mc.ls(sl=True)

for i in range(len(sel)):
mc.setAttr('%s.collisionLayer' % sel[i], i)

cheers,
Chris

m.d.

04-09-2010, 06:00 PM

thanks chris,

I should have mentioned...not only have i not touched maya in 5 years....but the version i am using is about that old as well...right now Maya 8...
I don't think there is a python interface for maya 8...8.5 could use Pymel or others

Wick3dParticle

04-12-2010, 09:22 PM

Hey MD,

you can select the rigid node directly by running a ls -type command.
So here is an example using the ls -type command to set different collision layers:

string $rbds[] = `ls -type rigidBody`;
int $i;
for($i = 0; $i<(size($rbds)); $i++){
setAttr ($rbds[$i] + ".collisionLayer") $i;
}

~Ilan

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