Select All Polymeshes?

[malcomz]

Hi, Is there a way I can use < selectType -polymesh > to fill up an array with all the meshes in the scene? If not, is there an other way?

tnxz

[segmoria]

You mean select all the Polygon meshes of the scene and ignore any NURBS or Subdiv surfaces, right?

ls -type mesh
Doesn't this work ?

[malcomz]

QUOTE(Segmoria @ 11/15/05, 04:34 PM)
You mean select all the Polygon meshes of the scene and ignore any NURBS or Subdiv surfaces, right?

ls -type mesh
Doesn't this work ?
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Yeap, good old ls does it; although I had to add a PickWalkUp since I didnt want the shapes.

BTW which is the full type list?

tnx

select -clear;
string $shps[] = ls -type mesh;
select -replace $shps;
PickWalkUp;
string $selMesh[] = ls -sl;

[joojaa]

QUOTE(rgbaz @ 11/16/05, 11:05 AM)
BTW which is the full type list?

there is no such thing the type is a unbounded thing, since every node that any plugin adds is to this.... BUt you can open the node reference form uder help (f1)-> Developper resources -> Nodes and Attributes

it lsits all types that alias defines. Or you can use the ls -st thet lists every object and type in a array where eachother is the type.

[naughty]

I'm always wary of using the PickWalk commands as there may be some weird heirarchy or something. If you want the transfoms of mesh shapes this is a good (and short) way to do it:

string $meshObjects[] = listRelatives("-f","-p",ls("-type","mesh","-l","-ni"));

which will return the transform names of meshes.

I've put in full DAG path flags and no intermediates too which you'll probably want.

you could add "-dag","-sl" too to make it work on the selected mesh objects only...

:nathaN

[malcomz]

QUOTE(Naughty @ 11/16/05, 02:34 AM)
I'm always wary of using the PickWalk commands as there may be some weird heirarchy or something. If you want the transfoms of mesh shapes this is a good (and short) way to do it:

string $meshObjects[] = listRelatives("-f","-p",ls("-type","mesh","-l","-ni"));

which will return the transform names of meshes.

I've put in full DAG path flags and no intermediates too which you'll probably want.

you could add "-dag","-sl" too to make it work on the selected mesh objects only...

:nathaN
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