A good way to store mesh components in a set ?

[Alejandro]

Hello guys!,

What would be the fastest solution to store all the face components for each object I select into its correspondent set?

I'm trying something like this:

mesh = maya.cmds.ls(selection=True, type='mesh')[0]

selection_list = OpenMaya.MSelectionList()

selection_list.add(mesh)

dag_path = selection_list.getDagPath(0)

mfn_mesh = OpenMaya.MFnMesh(dag_path)

v_count, ids = mfn_mesh.getTriangles()

but these are only triangle counts and vtx indexes, how could I have the full face element and store in a set ?

thank you !

[Marcus Ottosson]

Something like this should have you covered.

for mesh in cmds.ls(selection=True, type="mesh"):
    cmds.select("%s.f[0:]" % mesh)
    cmds.sets(name="%s_set" % mesh)

The .f[] syntax is for selecting faces, it’s what you see echoed in the Script Editor as you select a face interactively via the viewport.

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[Alejandro]

Thanks a lot Marcus, 

I was looking for an option with the API for speed, since I have scenes with more than 1k objects, do you think it's not needed in this case ?

[Marcus Ottosson]

You tell me. How long does it take currently? How often do you intend on running it? How long would you like it to take?

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[Alejandro]

I made a few tests on the usual number of elements, 2k / 1k, and it goes smoothly, not bad!

Thanks a lot Marcus :)

[Marcus Ottosson]

Cool. :) It should be fast, you’re more or less passing the burden of actually iterating over the scene to those two commands which are already implemented in C++. So it’s likely that trying to replicate this via the Python API would be more expensive.

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[Juan Moraga]

I totally agree. I had a problem like this before and I ended up using a method similar to Marcus'.

As an additional note, something I found handy in the past was the "-flatten" flag of the cmds.ls() command, which will return you a list with one item for each component (faces, verts etc.).

for mesh in cmds.ls(selection=True, type="transform"):
    faces = cmds.ls(mesh + ".f[0:]", fl = True)

    print(faces)

By the way, wouldn't the ls() in the for loop be with the type = "transform" flag instead of type = "mesh" flag?

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[Rudi Hammad]

Not sure if that is what you are looking for, but if you want  to use the API you can do something like

mSel = OpenMaya.MSelectionList()
mSel.add("yourObject")
mDag = OpenMaya.MDagPath()
cmpMObj = OpenMaya.MObject()
mSel.getDagPath(0, mDag, cmpMObj)

faces = list()
mIt = OpenMaya.MItMeshPolygon(mDag, cmpMObj)
while not mIt.isDone():
    faces.append(mIt.index())
    mIt.next()