Changing order of blendShape Nodes?

[charliebrown]

Can you change the order in which the blendShape nodes are stacked in the blendShape editor? Is there a mel script or something, maybe?

[charliebrown]

Well, Maya support said there's no way to do it, but I think I figured it out:
I saved the scene as Maya Ascii, then re-arranged the make node commands in the scene file to suite my tastes. Seems to work.

(yea for me)

But if anyone knows of a mel script, I'd still be interested.

[mcomet]

So wait, is this the order of the blendShape groups in the window, or each individual blend shape themselves that you can rearrange that way?

[charliebrown]

It's the order in which the blendShape nodes are stacked in the window; the order of the whole groups, not the individual sliders. You can swap the order of the target object shapes (the sliders) from within maya as long as you didn't delete the target shapes: select the two target objects whose order you want to swap, select Deform > Edit Blend Shape > Swap (p.57-58 Char. Setup). But I'll bet you could also do that by editing the scene file somehow.