not all verts in selection appear in list when I do ls -sl

[johnkeates2865]

When I use ls -sl in MEL with a vertex selection, not all the verts are listed.

Do this:

>Create a SoccerBall poly shape and smooth it once.

>Select one of the verts which has six edges coming off it.

>Grow the selection ("shift" + ">").

>type the ls -sl MEL command. 

When I do this, 12 verts are listed when there should be 13. Why?

Also, a lot of the selected verts are listed together (eg. "pSolid1.vtx[112:114]"). Why is this? I got around this by tokenizing but it is annoying.

Is there a better way to get a list of the selected verts?

[mspeer]

Hi!

Here they are listed all.

"[112:114]" does not mean 112 + 114, instead it means from 112 up to 114, so this selection includes 3 vertices.

[johnkeates2865]

Ah! so I need to make my script take that into account. Shouldn't be too hard. Is there an example of this code somewhere?

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Try the following, that should return what you want:

ls -sl -fl;

or

print (`ls -sl -fl`);

[johnkeates2865]

Thanks! the -fl tag works like a charm.