Groupparts/groupids

[rgkovach]

I've been working with lattices as a modeling tool so i can easily make changes to organic structures, but i'm quickly becoming buried under a sea of groupPart nodes in the hyperGraph.

Here is my basic workflow...create a simple proxy piece of geometry, add a simple shader, put a lattice on all or part of it, add more geometric detail, add multiple shaders, delete non-deformer history along the way and export to the game engine.

when i start to dig around in the hypergraph, i find i've managed to create quite a few groupPart nodes. Now i can manually clean them up by detaching the lattice from my object, deleteing history, and reattaching the model back to the lattice, which is fine. What i am wondering if there are some ways for me to decipher exacttly what is passing through groupPart nodes, so i can manage them better, thanks.

[joojaa]

Well the group pars have a accerative function but you dont need to use them.

Anwyay i would just mark group parts node into the auxilliary list and regraph without showing auxiliary connections. Would clean images up quite much

[rgkovach]

Ah, auxiliry nodes, i thought that maybe something was different about my hypergraph layout, i must of inadvertantly turned them.

Anyway, the reason I ask is because I'm experience a strange behavior in the Maya viewport. When I select/deselect objects, i see the materials "wig-out". Basically, it looks as if the material sets got corrupted, or the component lists got confused or something along those lines. The only way i've been able to fix this strange problem is to assign a basic lambert to the whole model, and reassign the materials one at a time back to the different regions of the model.

I was hoping I could trace the list of components for each material through the graph and see where problem was occuring.