MAXSCRIPT: can selected vertex arrays be un-sorted ?

[sales]

Hi !

When using $.selectedVerts on an editable poly I if the vertices are  in this order :...1,6,5,4,3,2...

I still get an array with this order: 1,2,3,4,5,6 but I must have the array excatly as the vertices are ordered in the geomtery (need to apply a loop on them)

Is there a way ?

TIA

NIR

[miauuuu]

No. You will always receive a bitarray of selected verts, edges, faces.

No matter which command you will use to get the selected sub-objects the result will always be a bitarray, which means "sorted".

[sales]

Kostadin

Hi and thx

Actually I wanted to send you an email regarding this issue - mybe you could complete my code and add to your Collection !

Nir

[miauuuu]

I don't have much time these days, because I have to finish another project, but you can send me your code and I can see what can be done.

[kevinvandecar]

Yes, as miauuuu says it will not be orerded according to geometry. You will have to run through the selected vertex list and then compare back to the geometry ordering itself.

This case was escalated to support, so if you are satisfied by the reply of miauuuu, please accept as solution and give kudos to them! 🙂

thanks, and hope it helps,

kevin

[Anonymous]

Kevin, maybe I am missunderstanding you, but how do you get the geomety order. I need somthing simular, but the difference is that  I am getting the vertices from a selected face, using polyop.getVertsUsingFace. With this method, this also sorts the vertices from lowest to highest, which is sometimes not the construction order.

[Swordslayer]

From the maxscript reference:

polyop.getFaceVerts <Poly poly> <int face>

Returns the face's vertices as an array. The order of the vertices in the array corresponds to the order of the vertices in the face.