How would i make a small script from Mel that controls mesh is selectable or not, and i can i do a same thing in python?

abhinav.verma2607 — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:35:36 GMT

I trying to make a script using Mel that uses setObjectPickMask so tried doing this code

It didnt work well i never wrote a Mel before. so basically i am trying to do is make a script that makes Mesh Selectable and non Selectable just like the button in the status line but in script form.

Please share your thoughts how can i achieve this and is this possible doing in python?

if (ObjectPickMask "Surface" == true) { setObjectPickMask "Surface" false; updateObjectSelectionMasks; updateComponentSelectionMasks; dR_selTypeChanged(""); } else if (ObjectPickMask "Surface" == false) { setObjectPickMask "Surface" true; updateObjectSelectionMasks; updateComponentSelectionMasks; dR_selTypeChanged(""); }

Re: How would i make a small script from Mel that controls mesh is selectable or not, and i can i do a same thing in python?

Kahylan — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:47:58 GMT

Hi!

What you are looking for is the selectType command, which is used to query/set the selectable objecttypes.

MEL:

int $selType = `selectType -q -p`; if ($selType == 0){ selectType -p true; } else{ selectType -p false; }

Python:

import maya.cmds as mc if mc.selectType(q = True, p = True) == True: mc.selectType(p = False) else: mc.selectType(p = True)

I hope this helps!

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How would i make a small script from Mel that controls mesh is selectable or not, and i can i do a same thing in python?

Re: How would i make a small script from Mel that controls mesh is selectable or not, and i can i do a same thing in python?