[Closed] A layer question

If I’ve understood correctly what you want is a way to get the layer where a node is in, right?. If so…

fn getNodeLayer node = (

	local nLayer = 0
	local found = undefined
	
	if node != undefined and selection.count == 1 do (

		do (
			local layerRef = (LayerManager.getLayer nLayer).layerAsRefTarg
			
			local nodesInLayer = #()
			if (layerRef.nodes &nodesInLayer) do (
				local index = findItem nodesInLayer node
				if index != 0 do found = layerRef
			)
		
			nLayer += 1
	
		) while (found == undefined) and nLayer < (LayerManager.count)
	)
	
	return found
)

I don’t know if this is the best way to do this but it is the first that I came with.

Happy new year.

Imagine you have a box named “Box01”. And this box is in the default layer “0”. To get the layer where the box is in, you should call the function I wrote like this:

layer = getNodeLayer $Box01

So now, you can access all the properties of the layer. For example you could do something like this to get the layer name:

layer.name

Take a look at the LayerProperties interface in the MAXScript reference to know more about the layer properties.