Sort by Polygon or Triangle Count

[dulaney]

I'm wondering if anybody knows how, or is familiar with a script that will sort objects by polygon count in the outliner. I'm extremely rusty with maya scripting, but I'd appreciate any commands that would be useful as well in case I'd have to write my own. 

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Here's a code snippet I wrote to sort a list containing objects depending on polycount. It returns a sorted list.

Hope it can be of any use to you:

#Function to return Sorted Dictionary
def MakeSortedPolyCountDictionary( a_List ):
	t_dict = {}
	cmds.select( clear=True )

	for child in a_List:
		cmds.select( child[0] )
		t_triCount = cmds.polyEvaluate( t=True )
		t_dict.update( {child[0]:t_triCount} )

	return OrderedDict( sorted( t_dict.items(), key=itemgetter(1),reverse=True ) )