Nice one. Never knew you would wildcard in ls, especially not with attribute
names. I'll give this a go. Thanks!
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:45:59 UTC, Carlos Rico wrote:
> You may add an attribute to the required nodes and list objects that have
> this attribute only. Add "yourCustomAttribute" to the required nodes and
> list only objects that have that attribute. Could be a possible solution I
> think. Cheers.
>
>
>
> ex:
>
> import maya.cmds as cmd
> specific_nodes = cmd.ls('*.yourCustomAttribute',objectsOnly=True)
> cmd.select(specific_nodes)
>
>
>
> 2013/2/7 Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com>
>
>
> import maya.cmds as cmd
>
> specific_nodes = cmd.ls(et='objectSet')
>
>
>
> That command would list all objectSets in the scene and it would do so very
> quickly compared to the time it would take to do this in a scene with
> hundreds of thousands of nodes: (psuedo-code)
>
>
>
> specific_nodes = []
>
> for node in cmd.ls():
>
> if isinstance(node, objectSet):
>
> specific_nodes.append(node)
>
>
>
> So, the question. Is there a way to "tag" or otherwise specify that certain
> nodes are different that would allow such a quick search to take place? Other
> than creating a new nodetype via the api.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Marcus
>
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