[Closed] Merge with children

not that i know of but you could try something like:

for i in selection do (
for g in i.children do (
i += g
)
)

thats the quick boolean way

you could also attach the meshes to the parents mesh if you want them to stay seperate subObjects

no, I mean when merging objects from a file, how can you know the relations between objects before merging them? I want to force to merge the children too when I merge an object

afaik cant directly

but you can save your currrent nodes into an array then check the scene after merging and exclude every one that was in the earlier array.
this way you build an array of the new nodes and can check them, delete everything that is .parent : false

but probably there is a 3line way to do this i simply dont know of so lets wait for some other replies

…or

you can intruduce special naming system for your assets.
like parent.name = box
child1.name = child01_box
child2.name = child02_box

then you get the node names from the file with getMAXFileObjectNames filter them out and if the names match after a lil stringplay you merge them too.

edit2 : of course then youd have to write a little tool for your artists that names the childNodes automatically

Or you can do something like this to merge specific objects:

clearlistener()
mObjs=#("Box03")
xMerge=#()
xrefs.deleteAllXRefs()
xrefs.addnewxreffile @"C:	este_xref.max" #noLoad
aXRef=xRefs.getXRefFile 1
aXRef.hidden=true
updateXRef aXRef
for i in aXRef.tree.Children do
(	
	if i.children.count!=0 then
	(
		mBol=finditem mObjs  i.name
		if mBol!=0 then
		(
			append xMerge i.name
			for j in i.children do append xMerge j.name
		)
	)
)
xrefs.deleteAllXRefs()
if xMerge.count!=0 then mergeMaxFile @"C:	este_xref.max" xMerge else print "No matches found."

Or this to merge all objects that have childrens:

clearlistener()
xMerge=#()
xrefs.deleteAllXRefs()
xrefs.addnewxreffile @"C:	este_xref.max" #noLoad
aXRef=xRefs.getXRefFile 1
aXRef.hidden=true
updateXRef aXRef
for i in aXRef.tree.Children do
(	
	if i.children.count!=0 then
	(
		append xMerge i.name
		for j in i.children do append xMerge j.name
	)
)
xrefs.deleteAllXRefs()
mergeMaxFile @"C:	este_xref.max" xMerge

it works, Kameleon! Good trick! i never thought about using Xrefs to get what I think!

Thanks all for your answers!