nParticles count

[Mathew Schwartz]

How can I query the number of particles in an nParticle?  I need to select one by one each particle, which I can see the feedback from mel as:

select -r nParticle1 ;
select -r nParticle1.pt[1492] ;

however, when I try to use:

cmds.nParticle('nParticle1',query=True,count=True)

I get the error:

# Error: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 16: Transform owns more than one possible shape #

The particle was created by using Fill Object.

[Marcus Ottosson]

Have a look at querying the shape directly instead; it’s typically called nParticle1Shape but might differ. In the Outliner you can toggle the visibility of shapes and have a look inside of the nParticle1 transform to see them both.

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[Mathew Schwartz]

Yes, thank you.  That was the problem.

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