How to get only mesh from relatives

[Anonymous]

I try to get the mesh node from a transform node, but everytime I try it includes "surface" something as well, I don't want that, I just want the mesh, how can I accomplish this?

[rajasekaransurjen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try filterExpand command.

http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/Commands/filterExpand.html

string $selection [] = `ls -tr`; //lists all transform nodes in the scene.
string $selectedMeshes [] = `filterExpand -sm 12 $selection`; //filters out all the non-polymesh nodes.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming/return-an-array-of-meshes-among-any-selection/m-p/88...

[Anonymous]

filterExpand is a good shout!

Alternative would be mc.listRelatives(type="mesh")

https://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/CommandsPython/listRelatives.html#flagtype

[Anonymous]

The problem was that it returned a list, so I got a list of a list, once I got the first item in the list it went normal. Thanks anyway.