topic Re: Organize Node groups by name in VRED Forum

Organize Node groups by name

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:58:35 GMT

Hi guys,

I am working always with templates and it is a bit messy to find and organize things in such a big document so i wanted to check if it is possible to organize certain Nodes by name...maybe with python?

I am pretty new with it and I would appreciate any help with it 😅

Best Regards

Christian

Re: Organize Node groups by name

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:55:19 GMT

There is nothing build in, but you can code this with python easily.

Re: Organize Node groups by name

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:37:04 GMT

I believe so but i am a noob with python...maybe has someone already something made?

Re: Organize Node groups by name

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:05:50 GMT

sorting by name is not clear with the hierarchical structure of the scene graph. Do you want each layer sorted alphabetically without restructuring the hierarchy? Do you want all nodes on the same level then sorted alphabetically?

With that info ill see what I can script quickly to help

Re: Organize Node groups by name

sinje_thiedemann — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:14:02 GMT

Hi Christian,

just as an idea, maybe you already know, you can also assign simple "Tags" to nodes in the Scenegraph. That allows keeping the node hierarchy as it is, and still have some kind of grouping mechanism on top.

Tags can also be assigned with Python, for example:

addNodeTag(findNodes("Group*", True), "My Group Tag")

Adds the tag "My Group Tag" to all nodes, that have a name starting with "Group". * is for wildcard matching.

(general info on tags: http://help.autodesk.com/view/VREDPRODUCTS/2020/ENU/?guid=VRED_Scene_Graph_Scene_Graph_Scene_Tags_html )

Kind regards

Sinje