Maya 2010 polySelect -edgeRingPattern; does not work?

malcolm

I select two edges and run polySelect -edgeRingPattern; and I get an error?

// Error: Flag '-edgeRingPattern' expects 2 argument(s).

What am I doing wrong, there is nothing in the command reference telling me how to use this command?

Seaseme

What is this command supposed to do? Is it just a normal select edge ring?

THNKR

You need to provide the ids of two edges, like this:
polySelect -edgeRingPattern 58 79;

malcolm

I thought this script would select every n'th edge in a pattern.

malcolm

Our technical artist sorted it out for me.

string $edges[] = `ls -sl -fl -l`;
for( $e=0; $e<`size($edges)`; $e += 2 )
{
string $buffer[];
tokenize $edges[$e] "[]" $buffer;
string $start = $buffer[1];
tokenize $edges[$e + 1] "[]" $buffer;
string $end = $buffer[1];
polySelect -rpt ((int)$start) ((int)$end);
}