In Jscript (or VBscript if need be) how do I parse the Object Model in XSI?
My purpose basically is to access all the objects in a scene and go through each of them one by one.
Thanks,
Vijay @ Dream Interactive....
There's a number of ways to do it. In the example below, the Traverse() function starts with the scene_root and gets a reference to the object's children collection, then iterates thru printing information about each child one-by-one. For sake of example, If the child is a polygon mesh, it's children are traversed until no more polygon mesh children are found.
To do the reverse and traverse up a hierarchy, simply assign the ".parent" reference to the object. When the object's name is identical to the parent's, you've reached the top (eg object.Name == object.Parent.Name)
------------start of script (Jscript)--------------------
// store location of the scene root
var startpoint = Application.ActiveProject.ActiveScene.Root;
// Start the process
traverse( startpoint );
/***********************************************************************
* Traverse() - gets a reference to the input object's children
* and prints general information about them. If a
* child is a mesh, it's children are traversed.
*************************************************************************/
function traverse( startnode )
{
var i, oRoot, oChildren, child;
// verify we're traversing a valid entry point
if ( startnode == null ) {
return( null );
}
oRoot = startnode;
// Get a reference to the children collection
oChildren = oRoot.children;
if ( oChildren.count == 0 ) {
// Object has no children
return( null );
}
// list the children and some background info about them
for ( i = 0; i < oChildren.count; i++ ) {
// For convenience, get current child from the collection
child = oChildren(i);
// List the child's name, type, parent, etc...
LogMessage( " Name: " + child.Name, siInfo );
LogMessage( " Type: " + child.Type, siInfo );
LogMessage( "Parent: " + child.Parent, siInfo );
LogMessage( " Model: " + child.Model, siInfo );
LogMessage( "Selection status: " + child.Selected, siInfo );
// Add your own queries here
// For sake of example, only traverse child's children
// if it is a polygon mesh.
if ( child.type == "polymsh" ) {
LogMessage( "--- It's a Polygon mesh ---", siInfo );
traverse( child );
}}
return( 0 );
}
------------end of script (Jscript)--------------------
Hope this helps,
Matt
Matt Lind
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