topic Get attribute value of an object on a different renderlayer? in Maya Programming Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165990#M16209 Is it possible to get an attribute value for an object for a given render layer without making that layer current?<BR /><BR />Right now I need to loop over the layers and set each one active and then query the value for the layer overrides.<BR /><BR />I hoped there'd be someway to index objects and their layer override values without having to do that<BR />Thanks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:24:40 GMT Anonymous 2010-08-25T15:24:40Z Get attribute value of an object on a different renderlayer? https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165990#M16209 Is it possible to get an attribute value for an object for a given render layer without making that layer current?<BR /><BR />Right now I need to loop over the layers and set each one active and then query the value for the layer overrides.<BR /><BR />I hoped there'd be someway to index objects and their layer override values without having to do that<BR />Thanks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:24:40 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165990#M16209 Anonymous 2010-08-25T15:24:40Z Re: Get attribute value of an object on a different renderlayer? https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165991#M16210 There is a way: <A href="http://www.thnkr.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_layer_overrides" target="_blank">http://www.thnkr.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_layer_overrides</A> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:12:57 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165991#M16210 Anonymous 2010-08-25T17:12:57Z Re: Get attribute value of an object on a different renderlayer? https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165992#M16211 Thanks for the quick reply.<BR /><BR />Getting the adjusted attributes I do by querying editRenderLayerAdjustments for them.<BR /><BR />But I want to get the value of each attribute for each layer. So far the only way I have found of doing this is by having to make the relevant layer active and then calling getAttr. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:46:58 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/get-attribute-value-of-an-object-on-a-different-renderlayer/m-p/4165992#M16211 Anonymous 2010-08-25T18:46:58Z