Selecting A Group

[bill-beaumont]

Hello,

I have a 3 paperclips. They are a low, mid and hi-res version of the same thing. They are all in a group. The group has an attribute which controls the visibility of each of the three models.

What I want, is to tell Maya that if I click on one of the 3 paperclip models, that it should actually select the group, not the individual clip.

I don

[toast--2]

click on the paperclip, press the up arrow.

Or use the option on the status line "Select by hierarchy and combination", then select the Root button

[joojaa]

Or show the selection marker for the group.

Anyway the reason maya does not select them automatically is because theres really no such thing as a group in maya. Theres just something you could in certain instances interpret as a group.

[bill-beaumont]

Thanks for the replies.

I just noticed it chopped the end of my post!

I went on to say that I don't want to have to press the up arrow, or choose the hierarchial selector button from the toolbar.

I was wondering if anyone know of or could write a script that if paperclip a, b, or c was selected, AND paperclip.groupselect=yes, then select the group (walk-up, is that the command?)

I guess the Mel is not too far away from what I have just written. The thing is I don't know how to get a mel script into memory so the 'If' statement it always there, waiting to be done. Do you know what I mean?

[joojaa]

Why do they have to be separate then at all?

Anyway, you could do this but its unproductive for your uderstanding of do's and donts. I mean just go to the groups trasform and tick show selection handle. then you can select BOTH each individual thing and the group.

Else just omit the extra transforms and put the shapes under the transforms. This omits the problem AND it does not realy on events trigering and inevitabluyy not working the way you want.

Like i said theres no such thing as a group in maya, nor a an object

I mean:

CODE
// Think of theese as placeholders for
// your paperclip.
file -f -new;
polyCylinder -r 1 -h 2 -sx 20 -sy 1 -sz 1 -ax 0 1 0 -rcp 0 -cuv 3 -ch 1 -n "hires";
polyCylinder -r 1 -h 2 -sx 12 -sy 1 -sz 1 -ax 0 1 0 -rcp 0 -cuv 3 -ch 1 -n "medres";
polyCylinder -r 1 -h 2 -sx 8 -sy 1 -sz 1 -ax 0 1 0 -rcp 0 -cuv 3 -ch 1 -n "lores";
createNode -n "allObject" transform;
parent -add -shape loresShape allObject;
parent -add -shape medresShape allObject;
parent -add -shape hiresShape allObject;
//delete the original trasforms
//shapes will remain in allres
delete lores medres hires;
//then add the switching there.

Or use nurbs then you automatically get lod with one shape.

So no dont think "make one thing select other", its counter productive, but think make one thing other. So while the counter productive is common way of thinking theres better ways tro soleve things that t ask that question. So it is a bad solution for what you really want.