Get Compound Attr

[tarticus]

Hi I have some geometry and some shaders in a scene.

They appear to be disconnected from each other but when clicking show up/downstream in hypershade the SG` s are displayed correctly. ie there IS a connection.

This connection appears in the format:

shapename.instObjGoups[0].objectGroups[3]

im assuming and hoping that i can get a list of components (as this is a component list identifier as I understand it) out of this somehow- ie the faces that should be connected to the shader.

Problem is that I cannot get to that list-
getAttr says:
// Error: line 1: The attribute is compound with mixed type elements. //

anyone got any other ideas or methods of getting to/listing the contents of what i think is a
instancedObjectGroups.objectGrpComponentList ?

this seems to be the only preserved connection between the original shading group and the polygonal object so im pretty stuffed otherwise.

yours hopefully,
tarticus

[joojaa]

try using listattr to find out what possible sub values it has (aswell as reaing the docs for geometryShape and dagNode in node reference) (note it can be null when you dont have anything to say such as all is there)

But just out of curiosity why dont you just reassign the shader?

but yeah getAttr shapename.instObjGroups[0].objectGroups[3].objectGrpCompList should do the trick