List Blend Shape Target Names, Even If Target Shapes Are Deleted?

[bluphoenix]

Hello! I have been scouring the forums and the Maya manual for hours, but I am finally submitting to your collective experience.

First off, I know how to return a list of the existing target shapes for a given blend shape in two ways:

blendShape -q -t Blend Shape Deformer Name Here

or

listConnections Blend Shape Deformer Name Here.it

However, I am trying to devise a way that I could do this even if the originial target shapes have been deleted. Neither of these methods work, and listAttr *Blend Shape Deformer Name Here* isn't helping.

Does anyone know how I could do this? Or perhaps, does anyone know where the MEL code for the Blend Shape Editor is? I bet that could help...

Thanks~

[ankur-dobriyal]

hi,
try this
hope this helps

string $sels[] = `ls -sl`;
string $selsHistory[] = `listHistory $sels[0]`;
string $findBlend[] = `ls -typ blendShape  $selsHistory`;
string $findWeights[] = `listAttr -m ($findBlend[0] + ".w")`;

regards
pramod

[badmanjam]

Thanks, Pramod!
That works great. Haven't come across the listHistory command yet.