bone count

[miyamoto]

Is there a command or a script that will return the number of bones on a character or a scene? I looked through Maya's mel command reference and Highend's script archive and didn't find anything. All help would be greatly appreciated.

Elvis Perry
Artifact Entertainment

[ame]

Hello,

this is one way to count the number of bones your scenes, please be aware that can take a while to run:

{
select -all;
string $selectAll[] = ls -sl;
select -hi $selectAll;
string $selectedBones[] = filterExpand -sm 3;
int $numberOfBones = size ($selectedBones);
print ("Number of bone(s):t"+$numberOfBones);
}

Hope this helps,

-a.

[miyamoto]

Thanks Ame for the mel lesson. I tried it and it works great!!
You should post it in the scripts section. Mad props.

Elvis Perry
Artifact Entertainment

[ame]

Hello,

if you like to count only the joints for a selected character you can used the following short script:

{
string $currentSelected[] = ls -sl;
select -hi $currentSelected;
string $bonesOnly[] = filterExpand -sm 3;
int $sizeBone = size ($bonesOnly);
print ("Number of bones:t"+$sizeBone);
}

and if you like to count only the selected elements you can do something like:

{// Number of selected Items
string $selectionList[] = ls -sl;
int $sizeOfSelectionList = size ($selectionList);
print $sizeOfSelectionList;
}

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more infos.

-a,

[novydhillon]

Another quick way is as follows

// select all transforms nodes (these will include joints)
string $objs[] = ls -tr;
int $count = 0; // initialize count
string $joints[];
for ($obj in $objs)
{
// if nodeType is joint then add to list and increment count
if(nodeType $obj == "joint")
{ $joints[$count] = $obj;
$count++;
}
}
// print count
print("n"+ size($joints));

Novy Dhillon
Radical Entertainment Inc.
Vancouver BC.
ndhillon@radical.ca