Aaah, right. I suppose you would need to recursively head up the hierarchy for that then. Glad to hear you got it working.
On 19 March 2014 17:59, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed. The problem is, in Softimage there is not "Full Path". You can get > the ".FullName()" which only gives you the model space plus object name > "myRig.pCube1" for example instead of "myRig.geometry.lowres.pCube1". It > was quick enough to roll my own though. > > Eric T. > > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 1:56:58 PM, Marcus Ottosson wrote: > >> I see. It's generally a good approach to work with full-paths >> throughout, and if you do, you should encounter little difficulty in >> paths across packages. Even duplicate names across hierarchies are >> unique given a full path. >> >> >> On 19 March 2014 17:44, Eric Thivierge <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Thanks Marcus, >> >> The problem I'm facing currently is that I need to write data to a >> json file that can be read in and interperated by both Softimage >> and Maya. So I have to store object names consistently when >> exporting from Softimage or Maya. I'm probably more in favor of >> mimicking the Maya format at this point since, well you know why. >> >> Thanks, >> Eric T. >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 1:12:25 PM, Marcus Ottosson wrote: >> >> In Maya, the hierarchy is included in a node's path but gets >> discarded >> most of the time and instead the artist is trusted to keep his >> names >> unique. The reason this is the case is because in Maya, there >> is no >> "hierarchy". Maya is inherently node-based; Softimage on the other >> hand does have the notion of a hierarchy. >> >> Thus, a full path of a pCube1 may be resolve >> into'|a_group|another_group|__pCube1', the | being the separator. >> >> >> You can ask for full paths via cmds.ls <http://cmds.ls> >> <http://cmds.ls>(long=True), >> >> other commands have similar flags, such as >> cmds.listRelatives(fullPath=__True) that ultimately do the >> >> same thing; >> concatenate the depth-first path of a node within a graph. >> >> Additionally, Maya has the notion of namespaces, which >> encapsulates >> nodes similar to how Models encapsulates nodes in Softimage, >> however I >> would suggest sticking with hungarian notation at first as >> namespaces >> are tricky to understand at first. >> >> Best, >> Marcus >> >> >> On 19 March 2014 15:00, Eric Thivierge <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>__>> wrote: >> >> Hah. Well, yeah... thanks. >> >> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:59:10 AM, damon shelton wrote: >> >> cmds.ls <http://cmds.ls> <http://cmds.ls> <http://cmds.ls> >> >> ('*pCube1', long=True) >> >> >> >> On Mar 19, 2014 7:54 AM, "Eric Thivierge" >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>__> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>__>__>> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> This may seem like a simple question but my Googling >> didn't return >> any useful results. >> >> I have a name of an object 'pCube1'. I need to >> find it in >> the Maya >> scene. Problem is, I may have multiple objects in the >> scene that >> are named the same thing. Even in the same hierarchy >> (Crazy that >> Maya lets you do this btw). Is there a way to get >> a list >> of all >> objects that are named 'pCube1'? Once I get that >> list I >> need to >> find the top most parent in the scene. 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