Selecting by name with wildcards does not work...

[Chris.Daley.animated]

Hi all,

I'm using the Morpheus rig (fantastic rig, by the way) in Maya 2014 and would like to select all of the control curve shapes so that I can place them in a display layer (an easy way to turn all the NURBS curves on the rig invisible without turning my parented props invisible, too!).

In order to do this, I cannot simply shift-click all of the control curves.  I need to select all of these curves' shape nodes (which are appended with "_animShape").  I attempted to select them all by entering "*_animShape*" (without quotes, of course) into the Input Box, but I receive the "No object matches name" error.  I also tried "select -r *_animShape*" in the Command Line, to no avail.

I do not want to have to spend 30 minutes to an hour scouring the Outliner for every single shape node (mind you, it's a very complex and sophisticated character rig!).  Am I using wildcards incorrectly?  Does anyone have any advice for how I can select all of these nodes at once?

Thanks,

Chris

[bruce.cash]

I ran into this just a few days ago. For me it appears the issue is if my objects are hidden then a outliner search will not return it as a result. Pretty frustrating and I do not recall that being the behavior before 2014

[Chris.Daley.animated]

Interesting observation.  My NURBS curves are not hidden, but our issues are probably related, regardless.  Perhaps I should submit a bug report?

Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂

[tdHendrix]

Is the rig referenced into the scene? If so then try this instead "*:*_animShape*"