Small correction made to the 4th line: total = cmds.polyEvaluate(poly, s=True)
https://gist.github.com/3738519 On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Justin Israel <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't seem to see a direct method for listing shells, other than the > count. But here is a possible approach. You can loop over the faces, > and determine that actual shells using polySelect extendToShell. > > Here is a function that can take a poly name and return either the > first face id of each shell, or the string name for the entire shell. > Depends on how you want to use it. I tried to make it a bit more > efficient by breaking early once we have the number of shells we > expected, and to also skip over faces that were part of the previously > collected shell. Reduces the number of polySelect calls to just the > first face of each one. > > https://gist.github.com/3738519 > > def getShellFaces(poly, asString=False): > shells = set() > faces = set() > total = cmds.polyEvaluate(s=True) > > for f in xrange(cmds.polyEvaluate(poly, f=True)): > > if len(shells) >= total: > break > if f in faces: > continue > > shell = cmds.polySelect(poly, extendToShell=f) > faces.update(shell) > > if asString: > val = "%s.f[%d:%d]" % (poly, min(shell), max(shell)) > else: > val = min(shell) > > shells.add(val) > > return list(shells) > > poly = 'polySurface1' > > # get the first face of each shell to be selected > # later with polySelect > faceIds = getShellFaces(poly) > for f in shells: > cmds.polySelect(poly, extendToShell=f) > > # get the string name of the entire shell in the > # form of polySurface1.f[x:y] to be used with select > shells = getShellFaces(poly, True) > for f in shells: > cmds.select(f) > > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Sumant Shenoy <shenronshe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> hey Echo7 >> just find the number of shells and write a loop for selecting using range >> >> -- >> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >> change your subscription settings: >> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
