triple switch node

[miarmy]

hi!,I created a triple switch node,...

i want code of add surface button

look image:

help help help help....

[justin hidair]

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On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 2:15:35 PM UTC-7, miarmy wrote:
> hi!,I created a triple switch node,...
> i want code of add surface button
> look image:
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>
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> help help help help....

is it line 169 of AEswitchControlTemplate.mel?

[Andres Weber]

I personally find that looking at nodes like this in the NodeEditor helps if they have really dodgy/hidden mel AETemplate based functionality and a non obvious codeable interaction.  (WARNING: I'm realtively sure coding this in, without using the AETemplate calls will break the AETemplate and render the attribute view pretty useless.)

You can see that this one has Input[0].inShape.  So all you need to do is connect something to that attribute and can work with the code for compound attributes to detect:

import maya.cmds as mc

node = 'tripleShadingSwitch1'

[attr for attr in mc.listAttr('%s.input[:]' % node) if mc.listConnections('%s.%s'%(node, attr))]

This will display all connected input attributes.  Remove the if in the list comprehension and you can then just get all input attributes that are currently added to the node.  Good luck.

[zeth willie]

I recently did a bunch of stuff scripting stuff into triple switches and it's tricky largely bc of the area Andres is talking about. If all you're doing is setting it up once, it's probably fine and not too hard, but all of those index numbers start to get a little harder to manage if you're accessing/changing it later via scripts bc you'll have to clean some stuff up yourself. You can end up with the same thing going into multiple indexes, empty indexes that become confusing in terms of the numbering (bc you'll have to line up the inTriple with the same index), indexes with something in the triple, but nothing in the input shape, etc. Not a deal breaker, but more confusing than most simple hook ups.  Writing a separate function that just cleans up the triple switch (or any given entry) might be helpful. HTH.

Z

[Kumaran M]

I agree with zeth, and i have some code to share, but its around a lot of propiretry stuff, so i am avoiding a rewrite for now.
But if you go through the mel, you will see the cleanups and the way they handle it, and you would have to write up a python version for yourself.

Good luck,
Kumar