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toshich

10-12-2003, 10:08 PM

Hello. I'm trying to make my first plugin for maya.And I have a question:
I'm getting all selected objects (polys) and then, trying to iterate over all faces of them. I don't understand one little thing:
How can I take MObject poiter to objects that I'm interating over.

Please look here:

MItSelectionList iter (selection, MFn::kMesh);
for (; !iter.isDone(); iter.next())
{
....
MItMeshPolygon faceIter (mesh, &stat);
for (;!faceIter.isDone();faceIter.next())
.....
}

I should fed MObject mesh to MItMeshPolygon, but i have only "iter". From where I have to take MObject pointer?

Should I use MDagPath::node method?

Sorry, if it's hard to read, but i'm from moscow and it's hard for me to explain things that i don't understand in another language.
Thank you.

sbp

10-13-2003, 12:20 AM

use MitSelectionList::getDagPath(MDagPath, MObject) to get your dagpath and object for the current iteration.

Look at the redoit code in convertEdgesToFaces.cpp in the devkit/plug-ins directory for example code.

toshich

10-13-2003, 12:35 AM

cool. sbp, thank you very much!
i think that i'll have other problems in future, can I ask you further? I'm going to fight alone, but sometimes i just can't jump over some walls.

anton.

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