Node existence?

Maya
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Using MEL, how can I determine

  1. If a node of some type exists?
  2. If a node which's name I know exists?
2

  1. hmm hard one listNodeTypes could do the trick as would creating a node and checking if it returns unknown? then deleting it-

  2. objExists nodeName

3

objExists will do the work.

Another thing, how can I check if a certain node type exists?

4

listNodeTypes "makeNurbGoesFishing";

if it returns nothing, the node type doesn't exist