Select facet by id?

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• simtenero Posts: 383

  April 2016

  e-wave said:

  Hello everyone,

  Assume I already know the ids of some facets, is there a way to select these facets via script, then I could use addSelectedFacetsToMaterialGroup() function to add them into a material group?
  I have found that DzFacetMesh has some functions such as: selectAllFacets(), selectConnectedFacets() and selectFacets(DzFaceGroup *grp), but they don't seem to meet what I need (please correct me if I'm wrong).

  Many thanks :)

  This seems doable.  You would have to first clear out the current active selection with deselectAllFacets(), then get the material you want to modify with getMaterialGroup().  Next, you'd create a DzFacetGroup that contains the facets you want added, then selectFacets(yourNewFacetGroup).  Then you should be good to addSelectedFacetsToMaterialGroup().

  None of that is tested, so I could be way off, but I think thats the basic idea .
• iwave Posts: 46

  April 2016 edited April 2016

  simtenero said:

  e-wave said:

  Hello everyone,

  Assume I already know the ids of some facets, is there a way to select these facets via script, then I could use addSelectedFacetsToMaterialGroup() function to add them into a material group?
  I have found that DzFacetMesh has some functions such as: selectAllFacets(), selectConnectedFacets() and selectFacets(DzFaceGroup *grp), but they don't seem to meet what I need (please correct me if I'm wrong).

  Many thanks :)

  This seems doable.  You would have to first clear out the current active selection with deselectAllFacets(), then get the material you want to modify with getMaterialGroup().  Next, you'd create a DzFacetGroup that contains the facets you want added, then selectFacets(yourNewFacetGroup).  Then you should be good to addSelectedFacetsToMaterialGroup().

  None of that is tested, so I could be way off, but I think thats the basic idea .

  Thank you very much for your reply.

  
  Your approach is correct, the only problem is I can not create the instance of DzFacetGroup or DzFaceGroup in Daz Studio(I am still using version 4.8).
  So I used getFaceGroup() function to get an existing DzFaceGroup, then added the ids of facets into this face group.
  Then I could successfully call selectFacets() to select these facets!

  
  Thank you again :)

  Post edited by iwave on April 2016