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1. Needing some help with MEL Script~

   

   Topic by KLair · Sep 2023 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   Hello lovely peeps, I'm very new to writing scripts but have always wanted to get more into it! I'm currently trying to write a MEL script that selects all objects with the suffix of hg in the mesh name, adds the existing lambert to all, polySoftEdges everything, deletes input history, and cleans up the scene. I've added…

2. Re: Needing some help with MEL Script~

   

   Reply by ylke · Sep 2023 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   Try this import maya.cmds as cmds import maya.mel as mel #Get all the transform nodes that have hg in it's name geo_list = cmds.ls('*hg*',type='transform') #run through all the geometry for geo in geo_list: #Ch=0 so that the soft edge won't end up in history cmds.polySoftEdge(geo,a=180,ch=0) #Get shapes to assign material…

3. Re: Needing some help with MEL Script~

   

   Reply by neilberard · Sep 2023 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   (Don't have access to Maya atm to test) but you can just select each mesh in your for loop. Also, you don't need semicolons in Python, FYI. for m in models: cmds.select(m) cmds.polySoftEdge(a=180)

4. Re: Needing some help with MEL Script~

   

   Reply by KLair · Sep 2023 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   Or better yet, if easier to do in python (tho I haven't figured out how to translate sets -e -forceElement initialShadingGroup into python yet..) import maya.cmds as cmds import maya.mel as mel cmds.select("*hg*"); models = cmds.ls(sl=True) for m in models: cmds.polySoftEdge( a=180 ); cmds.delete(all=True, ch=True);…