I guess there was a little wait time, before my first post went
through. Anyways, here is my solution for now.
Basically, I create each face as a separate polyFacet, and then I join
them all together with a MEL eval.
Any feedback is welcome, as I am really inexperienced with using
python in maya.
import pymel.core as pm
def makeMesh(pointList, triangulationIndices):
"""This function receives a list of points, and a list of index
triplets
indicating the three points to use from the list to create
triangular faces.
It then creates a mesh in Maya using these points and indices, and
returns
the name of the created mesh."""
polys = []
for i in range(len(triangulationIndices)):
face = triangulationIndices[i]
coords = []
for index in face:
coords.append(pointList[index])
polys.append(pm.modeling.polyCreateFacet(p=coords) )
pm.select(polys)
mesh = pm.language.mel.eval('CombinePolygons;')
return mesh
On Apr 20, 3:47 pm, Benjamin Golder <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I would like to create a triangulated mesh-like object in Maya using
> PyMEL.
> Which command should I use to create a new polygon object from
> scratch?
> I have a list of coordinates tuples, with a (x,y,z) tuple for each
> point.
> I also have a list of index tuples for each triangular face I want to
> make, as a (0,1,2) tuple, which refer to the indicies in the list of
> coordinates.
> I see that there is a command for appending polygon faces, but how do
> I create the first face?
>
> Thank you
> -Ben
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