I’m feeling extremely stupid, but I can’t figure out a way to get the current face selection of a node with TurnToPoly modifier on top of the stack as bitarray.
When I put a temporary Edit_Poly modifier on top of it (which I don’t like, because I’m doing it in a loop for many objects) I can only get the face selection when the mod panel is active and redrawing (again, I can’t do it that way, because my loop would take forever to finish).
I can use snapShotAsMesh to get a bitarray of faces, but then it’s tri faces, not polys, and even if I convert that to the equivalent quads somehow, it’s still a dirty hack, for my taste.
There must be a simple way I’m overlooking??
your_node.getselection #face
Hi Denis,
Doesn’t work unfortunately:
test=Teapot()
select test
modPanel.addModToSelection (Edit_Poly ()) ui:on
subobjectLevel = 4
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].SetSelection #Face #{}
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].Select #Face #{3..12, 15..16, 65..80, 83..84, 126..146, 189..190, 193..194, 197..198, 201..202, 205..206, 321..384}
subobjectLevel = 0
modPanel.addModToSelection (Turn_to_Poly ()) ui:on
(Quick and dirty macro recorder script to create an object similar to the ones I have to process…Mesh/Poly with selected faces in stack and TurnToPoly modifier on top)
now the code:
$.getselection #face
result:
-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: XXXXXX\; position: 20; line: 1
-- Unknown property: "getSelection" in $PolyMesh:Teapot001 @ [0.000000,0.000000,0.000000]
You are right. GetSelection doesn’t work. Well. Only one way to get poly selection as I see is with undo off with redraw of to make a copy of the PolyMesh, convert the copy to editable poly, get selection, and delete the copy.
So here is the solution:
fn getPolyMeshObjectFaceSelection obj =
(
with undo off with redraw off
(
tempEditablePoly=copy obj
convertToPoly tempEditablePoly
selectedFaces=polyOp.getFaceSelection tempEditablePoly
delete tempEditablePoly
selectedFaces
)
)
getPolyMeshObjectFaceSelection $
That’s a very ugly workaround if you ask me. I can’t believe that there is no better way…
it’s not too bad…
fn getPolyMeshSelection node = if canconvertto node Editable_Poly do undo off
(
disableRefMsgs()
new = converttopoly (copy node)
faces = new.selectedfaces as bitarray
delete new
-- format "node: % selection: %
" node faces
enableRefMsgs()
faces
)
but it will be better to stay with the mesh face selection solution…