I was also sure it must exist, especially since maya colors the wireframes of potentially-affected objects. I came to the same conclusion as Paul.
It seems like a good candidate for an open source c++ plugin :) On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Paul Molodowitch wrote: > Sadly, I know of no "easy" way to do this. > > I did come up with some code that would effectively do this, by tracing > connections, though... I can dig it up if you're interested. It ended up > being slightly more complicated than I thought it would be, because you end > up needing to track up the dag for some types of inputs and not for others, > depending on the "affects world space" property of attributes... > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:09 PM, dgovil > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I'm wondering if someone knows of a way to do the following: >> >> Given a selection of objects, check for each object if its' xform is >> affected by any of the other objects in the selection. Preferably without >> tracing the full path, connections and/or expressions that might be >> involved. >> >> Using Maya 2013 and above. >> >> I tried looking through but couldn't see anything that fit the bill, but >> I'm sure it must exist somewhere? >> >> Thanks! >> Dhruv >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, >> 'cvml', >> 'python_inside_maya%[email protected]');>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', > 'python_inside_maya%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
