I will try to be as straight as possible but excuse me if my expression is chaotic because of late time now & I`m tired.
Im curious whats the best way to get object by maxscript.
Let say the most common way is :
“select $box 001”
But in case where
our code refers to hundreds of objects on scene like in my case where
I have code that support complex rig, somebody can change name of one
of the object that code is referred to by accident and I will not reach this object which is very likely.
I noticed that 3dsmax it self can refer to given object and this reference cant be broken even when referred object name is changed (e.g when one object parameter relay to other). I could always get objects by unique attribute(custom attribute) but then I have to illiterate by all elements to found my object which is not so fast way i think + custom attribute should should have unique param for each object, which I also cant manage how to apply in painless way.
What you think about this?
as i understood you don’t like to search nodes by name (wildcard, pattern). which is correct in general.
so, you would like to find your nodes using specific CA or property, right?
do you think it can be slow?
first of all, don’t worry. it’s fast. it’s fast enough for hundred thousand of nodes.
Could you give some example of making and chancking unique properties for objects?
I tried to add some custom attributes to multiple objects and then
do something like : for o in objects where isProperty ($.baseObject #unquename)==true do …
but I can`t apply unique ca for many of objects because when I use:
newAttrib = attributes entityAttrib
(
parameters posParam rollout:entParams
(
isStatic type:#boolean ui:($.name) checked:false
listner say:
Syntax error: at (, expected name
– In line: isStatic type:#boolean ui:(($
so it seems no matter what I do I have to always make code for each object separately,
and I have hundreds of them or I`m doings something wrong?
What are you trying to do exactly?
Which parameters do you wnat to asign to your objects and what for?
$.name can’t be an ui of any parameter. Ui: refers to the name of an ui gadget (spinner, button, checkbox…) that you have to asign in your parameters rollout.
Perhaps you can just asign a boolean value to one parameter of your custom attributes and select all objects that have that value to ‘true’ through ‘getclassinstances’ of the custom attributes.
But really don’t understand well what you want to do.
You could assign them all their own user properties (rmb on object > properties > user properties) like such:
currentlySelectedObjs= getCurrentSelection()
for node in currentlySelectedObjs do (setUserProp node “_someWords” true)
And then get them via:
for node in currentlySelectedObjs do (if (getUserProp node “_someWords”) == true do ())