What is a good way in mel to query if a group is selected?

[malcolm_341]

Is there a robust way to check if my selection is a group? I see you can check if the transform has a shape node or not, that doesn't seem that robust though, is there any kind of type command that will return group?

[Kahylan · Accepted solution]

Hi!

As far as I know, there isn't.

Maya doesn't differentiate between "transform" and "group", by definiton a "group" is only a "transform" without a shape node.

 So if you filter for type "transform" when you check your selection and then check for objects that don't have a immediate child node of type "shape", you should reliably only end up with groups.

So the method you came up with yourself is robust.

I hope this helps!