can't hide pflow particlegrups via maxscript???

#1

am i going crazy here or is hidding particle groups via maxscript broken???
when you hide an plfow event event via the particle flow view, max selects the particle group
for example $‘pf source 001 -> event 001’ and the listener print the command “max hide selection”

so i tried doing this via script


 select  $'pf source 001 -> event 001'
 max hide selection

doesn’t work…
so then i triend a a bunch of other stuff like


 $'pf source 001 -> event 001'.isNodeHidden = True

nothing happens
even tried


 hide $'pf source 001 -> event 001'

still nothing…
anyone else run into this same thing???
it seems to be broken in 2012->2015
any ideas???
thanks homies :slight_smile:

#2

Hey bud
I don’t think pflow events have visible properties, I haven’t tried to do this ever but obviously they’re designed to never be visible inside of max in any form, so I assume they’re doing something wonky when it comes to how they are treated, I assume they don’t have normal visibility properties…
You can always email Oleg oleg@orbaz.com he might be able to clarify too
I just think they way they’re constructed they’re very different to typical objects in terms of they will never show in scene explorer or be acknowledged outside of maxscript so visibility properties are probably something they wont have… again I’ve never tried to hide an event object since they’re not visible in the first place so it’s pretty damn specific! :slight_smile:

hit me up on skype if you like

#3

Yes it’s definetly strange…
Specialy since it can be done via the particle flow gui…
All the other properties work fine

And .isNodeHidden can actually be used to unhide this groups
It just dosnt work when you supply a value of true