Mel script Q

motives

Anyone got a melscript or know how to make one that makes it possible to copy UV's to UV Sets with multiple obejcts selected?

tremulant

I dont know of any, but you should check out fat asians stuff if you haven't, he could have something similar.

http://www.jhaywood.com/maxScripts.htm

just in case you didnt see it before.

motives

yea those maxscript's will sure come in handy in maya

motives

ahh noone? i was really hoping on this one heh

Eric Chadwick

Too bad there isn't a Scriptspot for Mel.

motives

Well i did see that highend3d has a somewhat active forum for Mel. Gonna try my luck there aswell

Scott Easley

Highend3d is a phenomenal resource for MEL scripts.

You might also want to check out cgtalk.com's Maya MEL forum -- they have a lot of good advice.

cgtalk MEL forum

However, in case you want to just copy one set of UV from one model to another, you can do the following:

1) Select the model you want to transfer the UVs from, then the model you want them to go to.

2) While in Model mode, select 'Polygons --> Transfer (OptionBox)'.

3) When the option box comes up, make sure you have 'UV sets' selected. When you hit either 'Apply' or 'Transfer' it should work for you.

This same process may work for multiple objects -- never tried it, myself.

motives

thanks scott. While that worked it was not exactly what i want. I want to copy uv's from one set to another on the same object. Sofar (with a little help from highend3d!) i come up with this:

string $objname[]=`ls-sl`;
for( $i=0 ; $i<(`size($objname)`); ++$i){
select -r ($objname[$i]);
polyCopyUV -uvi "map1" -uvs "TexCoord1" -cm 1 -ch 1;
};
select -r ($objname);


its a start, now i have a shelfbutton which i can copy uvs from map1 to texcoord1

Next up is to try and make it copy from a current set instead of map1 and then (in my dreams) define what set to copy to in a little UI