Hey guys,
I’m new here and new to programming in Maya.
I’m learning Python, and I was to be able to select a bunch of faces and have that selection stored in a variable.
Seems easy enough, but I can’t figure it out. I’ve had a scout around google and can’t seem to find any answers.
Would appreciate any help!
Cheers,
Tom
Hello and welcome. I’d encourage you to post the code you are having trouble with. That way we can correct and guide you.
To get you started, I have written a small example. Try to run each line one at a time so you can see what the individual lines do.
import pymel.core as pm
import json
# get a flattened list of selected faces on pCube1
faces = pm.selected(fl=True)
print 'faces:', faces
idxList = [f.index() for f in faces]
print 'idxList:', idxList
# create locator with string attr
locShape = pm.createNode('locator', ss=True)
loc = locShape.getParent()
loc.addAttr('componentIndexList', dt='string')
# use json to dump the list into the string attr
loc.componentIndexList.set(json.dumps(idxList))
# get index list using json to load the data from the string attr
idxList2 = json.loads(loc.componentIndexList.get())
print 'idxList2:', idxList2
# reconstruct faces list
faces2 = ['pCube1.f[%i]'%idx for idx in idxList2]
print 'faces2:', faces2
# reselct faces
pm.select(faces2)
David