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Christopher.

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Oct 4, 2015, 2:15:53 PM10/4/15
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I want to change the color of a sphere using Switch in MEL this is what I have thus far, it is not working ? 

Can you store RGB values in a int ?

string $obj_sphere = pSphere1;
int $color = 22, 204, 61;
switch ($color) {
    case $obj_sphere: 104,160,60;
    break;
    }

Justin Israel

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Oct 4, 2015, 2:51:55 PM10/4/15
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Arrays:
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/files/Arrays_vectors_and_matrices_Arrays.htm

Vectors:
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/Arrays_vectors_and_matrices_Vectors.htm,topicNumber=d30e790326


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Christopher.

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Oct 4, 2015, 3:27:27 PM10/4/15
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The color values should be in an array ?
$color = [22,204,61],[34,56,165];


On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 2:51:55 PM UTC-4, Justin Israel wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 7:15 AM Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to change the color of a sphere using Switch in MEL this is what I have thus far, it is not working ? 

Can you store RGB values in a int ?

string $obj_sphere = pSphere1;
int $color = 22, 204, 61;
switch ($color) {
    case $obj_sphere: 104,160,60;
    break;
    }

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Justin Israel

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Oct 4, 2015, 4:34:44 PM10/4/15
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The switch statement has some limitations for your application. You can’t use an array as a switch expression, and you can’t use vector variables as switch cases…

Vector with switch:

vector $myColor = <<0, 0, 1.0>>;

switch ($myColor){
    case <<1.0, 0, 0>>:
        print "RED!";
        break;
    case <<1.0, 1.0, 1.0>>:
        print "WHITE!";
        break;

    case <<0, 0, 1.0>>:
        print "'merica!";
        break;

    default:
        print "nada.";
        break;

}

Array with if-else:

int $redColor[3] = {255, 0, 0};
int $whiteColor[3] = {255, 255, 255};

int $blueColor[3] = {0, 0, 255};

$myColor2 = $blueColor;

// Because I barely know MEL these days and I don't know
// a better way to compare int arrays.
proc int equalColors(int $left[], int $right[]) {
    if (size($left) != 3) {
        return false;
    }
    if (size($right) != 3) {
        return false;
    }

    int $i;
    for ($i=0; $i < 3; $i++) {
        if ($left[$i] != $right[$i]) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

if (equalColors($myColor2, $redColor)) {
    print "RED!";
} else if (equalColors($myColor2, $whiteColor)) {
    print "WHITE!";
} else if (equalColors($myColor2, $blueColor)) {
    print "'merica!";
} else {
    print "nada.";
}

You are probably better off with an if-else.

Justin

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:27 AM Christopher. crestchr...@gmail.com wrote:

The color values should be in an array ?
$color = [22,204,61],[34,56,165];


On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 2:51:55 PM UTC-4, Justin Israel wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 7:15 AM Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to change the color of a sphere using Switch in MEL this is what I have thus far, it is not working ? 

Can you store RGB values in a int ?

string $obj_sphere = pSphere1;
int $color = 22, 204, 61;
switch ($color) {
    case $obj_sphere: 104,160,60;
    break;
    }

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Crest Christopher

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Oct 4, 2015, 5:27:06 PM10/4/15
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How do you know what color 0,0,1.0 is ?

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Justin Israel

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#Numeric_representations

Maya's color values are floating point (as far as I know)

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