[Closed] Stuck on simple array append

append can have only two arguments: append <array> <value>
To append to array:

append AttachArray $Sphere001
append AttachArray $Sphere002
append AttachArray $Sphere003

Since you know the obejcts that will be attached, you don’t need to append them to an array.

  --add button function
   on attach_btnpressed do 
   (
  	 AttachArray = #($Sphere001, $Sphere002, $Sphere003)
  	  clusterAttach AttachArray
   )    
  

If you want to have all spheres in array then you can use

sphereArr = $Sphere* as array

the append function only takes 1 item at a time so that won’t work as is.

you can either use

 append AttachArray $Sphere001
 append AttachArray $Sphere002 
 append AttachArray $Sphere003
 

or do something more fancy like this.

 src_objects= #($Sphere001, $Sphere002, $Sphere003)
 
 for obj in src_objects do 
 (
  print ("adding: " + obj.name)
  append AttachArray obj
 )
 

The above loops trough the src array and performs the inner loop for each item with ‘obj’ being the current item.

IF you want to add the current selection to the array try using this line in the code:

 src_objects = selection as array
 

edit: Miauu beat me to it

Thanks so much, really appreciate it! I am lucky the maxscript community is friendly I get so stuck but there is always help!

Thanks for also showing me the other ways to approach this!

Yep, but he asked about append.

only because he probably didn’t know about join

Now he knows how to use both methods.

if you dont want to modify the original arrays, just add those arrays ( aka the “third” method )

arrayC = arrayA + arrayB

of course this uses more memory than join and is slower