Get the Xref object node sceneName instead of sourceName

[bertv]

Hello,

I am creating a script using Xref objects.

In my scene I recorded an Xref object group with 4 primitives and made a duplicate of the object node.

So 2 group of 4 primitives are shown in the xref objects dialog

When I iterate over all my Xref object nodes, in code, I want to use the scene name instead of the source name.

Because this scenename contains unique names and the sourcename references to the actual source data.

But using objectsname keeps giving the sourceName 😞

This is my code

RecordObjects = objXRefs.getAllXRefObjects()

for i = 1 to RecordObjects.count do
(	
	print RecordObjects[i].objectname
)

After looking in the API under Xref object node I couldn't find a proper method

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-8B7E81F0-AC81-4518-8D8E-B0C9C6717645

Any help would be appreciated

Regards

Bert

[miauuuu]

for o in objects where classOf o == XRefobject do print o.name

[bertv]

Omg miauuuu,

Thanks, works perfectly

[michaelsonbritt]

The .objectname property is specific to XRefObject, and indicates the source name.

The .name property is more general, it's property which applies to all objects, not only xref object, and indicates the object name in the current scene.  In this case it's the more general property which you want.

To see the basic XRefObject properties on the selected object (assuming it is an xref), do this in MaxScript:
show $

To see some extended XRef properties and functions on the object, do this in MaxScript:
showinterfaces $

Some properties can return other interfaces, which you can again inspect using showinterfaces.

Cheers,

Michaelson Britt

[bertv]

Nice,

show $ and showinterfaces $ are like code hinting.

Very useful

Regards

Bertv