topic Can't find open group head to close in 3ds Max Forum

Can't find open group head to close

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:46:58 GMT

has anyone has this issue and how do we correct it in max 2014, need this badly

Re: Can't find open group head to close

Steve_Curley — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:56:13 GMT

De-select everything, Zoom Extents All. An open group will have a pink bounding box. Alternatively, select a single object which is in the open group and run the following short script.

(
while selection[1].parent != undefined do
   select selection[1].parent
)

Re: Can't find open group head to close

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:26:20 GMT

damm i solved it too fast i would have loved to try this, what i did was creat a new object and make a new group, then select each trouble object and attach it to the group, it worked just fine now i dont have the issue in my file anymore, thanks again steve for your help, as usuall ur a life saver!

Re: Can't find open group head to close

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:36:39 GMT

Well it's been a long time but maybe it can help someone :

for obj in $ do
(
	if isGroupHead obj AND isOpenGroupMember obj then
	(
		print(obj.name + " - isOpenGroupMember  : " + isOpenGroupMember obj as string +
				" - isGroupHead : " + isGroupHead obj as string)
		setGroupMember obj false
		--setGroupOpen obj false
	)
)

When this error shows up the group head is flagged as a group member as well as a group head, so we just have to detach it.

Don't forget to make backup before saving the file....

Re: Can't find open group head to close

dhalsin_leo — Sat, 28 May 2022 20:01:09 GMT

I was having the same problem, I was able to select an object from the group and create a new group, then I ungrouped it and did that with the rest of the items until they all had no group anymore.