topic Re: Change to Object Mode in Maya Programming Forum

Change to Object Mode

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:44:26 GMT

I'm trying to write a script to toggle a selection of objects from vertex mode to object mode. However,

cmds.selectMode( object = True )

Doesn't seem to change the mode from whatever to object mode

objs = cmds.ls( hilite = True )
for item in objs:
  cmds.selectMode( object = True )

So I'm a little confused as to how to proceed.

Re: Change to Object Mode

Roland.Reyer — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:43:03 GMT

Hi,

You just need to set the selection mode once and then select the objects in one go.

I'm using this script on my F8 key:

$hilite = `ls -hilite`;
$obj = `ls -dag -sl`;
if (size( $hilite)) {
     setSelectMode("objects", "Objects");
     select -r $obj $hilite;
} else {
     setSelectMode("components", "Components");
}
if (`selectMode -q -object`) {
     inViewMessage -smg (uiRes("m_toggleSelMode.kIvmSelectObject")) -fade -pos topCenter;
}else{
     inViewMessage -smg (uiRes("m_toggleSelMode.kIvmSelectComponent")) -fade -pos topCenter;
}