Getting skinCluster attached to skin

[mutiny33]

Hello,

I am writing a tool for mirroring influence objects. I need to know the name of the skin cluster connected to skinned geometry. If I use listConnections on it it doesnt list anything because what is selected is just a transform node (which isnt connected to the skinCluster).

Joints on the other hand are directly connected to the skinCluster node. so if I select a joint that is rigged and use the command listConnections -t skinCluster, it will return the name of all the skinCluster nodes it connects to.

I want to do this but by selecting the rigged skin.

Thanks,
Daniel

[joojaa]

Fisrt get the shape accosiated to the trabnnform, not thet this can be a source of a bug since one thransforma CAN be a parent for many shapes (it mostly isnt but it can be, in my nurbs setups it generaly is).

[warpcat]

// WC_listSkinCluster.mel
//
// Warpcat- warpcat@sbcglobal.net - 7-12-02
//
// Description:
// Global proc that retuns the skin cluster name of the surface
// provided as the procs arugment. If there is no skin cluster
// will return 0.
// Example:
// WC_listSkinCluster ball;
// // Result: skinCluster23 //
// Updates:
// 4-14-04 - Changed method for finding skinclusters.

global proc string WC_listSkinCluster(string $object)
{
if (!objExists $object)
error "Object provided as argument dosen't exist - WC_listSkinCluster.mel";
string $objHist[] = listHistory -pdo 1 $object;
string $skinClusters[] = ls -type "skinCluster" $objHist;
if (size $skinClusters > 0)
return $skinClusters[0];
else
return 0;
}

[sboy]

I've been having success with the "findRelatedSkinCluster" command (which is actually a script). I tried Warpcats proc, and it works too.

string $list[] = filterExpand -sm 12;
if (!size $list)
error "Please select one object";
print findRelatedSkinCluster $list[0];

[warpcat]

Yeh, I remember after I wrote my script, I later found Maya had it's own. That's usually how it works.