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Re: MEL questions
Wow, cant believe I didnt notice the ls -flatten flag, no idea how I missed it. Wish more things in mel had simple solutions like that :p I've actually used your save selection script FunkyB, comes in handy quite often. Unfortunatly it breaks part of mayas performPolyExtrude procedure, which I'm using for one of my scripts… -
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Thanks for the help rebb. Unfortunatly I dont know python (yet!), but intend to get around to that sooner rather then later. Even though the thread didnt get as much of a response to the last set as would have liked, i'll post a few more questions (I'm greedy arnt I ;) ). 18. How would you go about determining the… -
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1. Yep, what Funky Bunnies said - optionVars are the way to do it. 2. I use tokenize all the time... hopefully not because I'm doing something wrong :) But for example if you want to extract the vertex index as an int from "pCube1.vtx[21]" which is a string, so tokenize it into an array with "[]" as the split characters,… -
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1. Not sure exactly what you want here. Why can't you just declare a global variable in one proc, and access it in all the others? There's no reason to "lock" it - the only way to change the var is to explicitly set it. If you want it to be stored across sessions (as in, literally set it ONCE only) then you can use… -
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Question time. MEL thread: 24. Is it possible to know what order component selects were made in? I could make a proc that runs on app start to keep an ordered list, but I dont want to have to do that if possible. 25. How do you get errors to stay shown? Mine always just flash on and off before they can be read. 26. What… -
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24. Don't think so. I've never tried though, but offhand I can't think of anything. Maybe some sort of tool context? ScriptCtx or something might be worth looking at. 25. You mean in the single-line feedback box in the bottom right? If an error was the last thing that occurred, it should be shown there. Are you putting a… -
Re: MEL questions
8. As Funky Bunnies said. A lot of the time if I'm getting values passed from something other than "ls" or "filterExpand" then I'll just run an "ls -fl" on the resulting selection, for example:= `ls -fl `; 9. If you write something that does this, let me know, cos it sounds handy ... never done it myself though :) 10.… -
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MEL thread response: FunkyB: Well the performPolyExtrude procedure keeps the original faces selected after being performed, but the saveSelection script makes it deselect them once done instead. So the procedure still works, but it loses its advantage over using a regular extrude command. Also, pics (These answer your… -
Re: MEL questions
18: getModifier will give you the actual state of the shift/ctrl/alt/capslock keys, not if there was a keystroke event earlier. If it is what you are looking for, then just like me you are pretty much stuck and will be forced to implement some sort of wrapper function with a loop somewhere looking for the change of state… -
Re: MEL questions
8. most commands have an expanding flag. If using 'filterExpand' it has a flag called '-expand', if using 'ls' the flag is called '-flatten' 9. There's no particular option in Maya by default. I have a melscript hack on my site to save selections or you could try NEX. As far as selecting modified components I don't know…
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