I have been looking for a way to merge only certain layers from one max scene into the current scene, I cant seem to find any way of doing it. mergeMaxFile has only a name selection option. I guess what I am after is a way of getting layer information out of a max file, similar to how you can get a list of objects with getMAXfileobjectnames… Anyone have any ideas?
The only way to do it is to first export the original scene by layer, and then import it again by layer.
I wrote a script that does just that (as I was trying to fiqure out what scene object was corrupting a max scene).
Chris J.
Open the file you want to merge from, enumerate all objects by layer, saveNodes() to a new file, load the target file to merge into, merge the separate by-layer file. Delete the intermediate by-layer file if you want. Done.
I figured I might have to do some kind of jiggery pokery like that – thanks for your help guys!