Nurbs curves

[zachgrachan]

I could swear it should be an easy flag in ls. But I haven't been able to figure it out. I ended up using nameing conventions to make it easier (ie. just add xx to the end of every one). If you do figure it out, please let me know...

[mhovland]

You can use:

string $nurbsCuves[] = `ls -type "nurbsCurve"`;

to get all the shape nodes associated with the nurbsCurves. Then it is a simple walk through relatives to find the transform nodes.

Here is an example, mangle it as you need for your application:

{
string $nurbsCurves[] = `ls -type "nurbsCurve"`;
string $nurbsCurveTransforms[];
for($i = 0; $i<size($nurbsCurves);$i++)
{
string $hold[] = `listRelatives -parent $nurbsCurves[$i]`;
$nurbsCurveTransforms[$i] = $hold[0];
}

print $nurbsCurveTransforms;
}

Hope this helps.

[zachgrachan]

is there a list of the types anywhere? when I use -showType, everything is a transform, so I can't figure out what to use as the type strings for various types of surfaces.

[Aido]

Thanks very much for your help guys !
Here it is, the final script to select all curves regardless of name.

string $nurbsCurves[] =`ls -type "nurbsCurve"`;
select $nurbsCurves;

Thanks again for your help.
Ayjay.
:thumbsup:

[mhovland]

Originally posted by zachgrachan
is there a list of the types anywhere? when I use -showType, everything is a transform, so I can't figure out what to use as the type strings for various types of surfaces.

That is because of the way Maya works internally. You need to pass in the shapeNode to use -showType. All the top nodes are transforms, the shapeNode is where the type is defined.

[zachgrachan]

so then it would be

ls -sl -shapes -showtype;

yes?

[playmesumch00ns]

You can also do it using the nodeType function with the name of an object's shape node.

e.g:

nodeType curveShape1

would return:

nurbsCurve

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