Maya simple MEL script Toggle

Autocon

So I feel dumb for forgetting most of the MEL scripting I learned in school when I want to do something as simple as creating a hotkey that can toggle between two commands.

I basiclly want to be able to toggle between the mesh smooth effect in Maya on and off. So thats the low quality mode and high quality mode.

Seems like it should be a simple if/else command but I cannot recall how to do these correctly anymore to get one key stroke to toggle between two things.



In case it makes it eaiser the command for High and Low quality mode is

subdivDisplaySmoothness -smoothness 1;
subdivDisplaySmoothness -smoothness 3;

Thanks!

haiddasalami

 string $sel[] =`ls -sl`;    
    for ($thisObj in $sel){ 
        int $displaylevel[] = `displaySmoothness -query -polygonObject $thisObj`;
        if ($displaylevel[0] == 1) 
        {
            //Go to 3
            displaySmoothness -polygonObject 3;
        }
        if ($displaylevel[0] == 3) 
        {
            //Go to 1
            displaySmoothness -polygonObject 1;
        }
        
    }

Should work hopefully haha. Should be able to have sel2 as sel, maya sometimes doesnt clear variables Also this should work if you have a whole bunch of objects selected.

Autocon

Thanks a ton haiddasalmi It works like a charm!

haiddasalami

Good to hear it worked

passerby

ah thanks, now i can have it toggled on the tab key like i have in modo and voidworld.

Edit: crap NVM cant bind tab to anything in maya, anyone know a way around that.