Using Native Softimage Commands To Access Groups

Using Native Softimage Commands To Access Groups

There are four basic actions when it comes to working with groups:

• Creating a group.

• Adding members to an existing group.

• Removing members from an existing group.

• Removing a group from the scene.

The next four sections provide demonstrations of how to do each of these actions, and all four code fragments may be run at once.

To create a group with native Softimage commands

' Create a new model called "MyModel"
Set oModel = GetPrim( "Null", "MyModel" )

' Create a new polymesh sphere called "MySphere"
Set oSphere = CreatePrim( "Sphere", _
   "MeshSurface", "MySphere" )

' Create a new group containing the model and sphere
Set oGroup = CreateGroup( "MyGroup", oSphere & ", " _
   & oSphere & ".polymsh.cls.Point", oModel )

To add items to a group with native Softimage commands

' Create a torus called "MyTorus"
Set oTorus = CreatePrim( "Torus", _
   "MeshSurface", "MyTorus" )

' Add it to the group
AddToGroup oGroup, oTorus

To remove items from a group

' Remove "MySphere" from "MyGroup"
RemoveFromGroup oGroup, oSphere

If you added an object in branch mode to a group, to remove it you must select it properly, then use the RemoveFromGroup command without any parameters. For example:

SelectObj "null", "BRANCH", True
AddToGroup "Group"
' ...
SelectObj "Group"
AddToSelection "null", "BRANCH"
RemoveFromGroup

To remove a group from the scene

RemoveGroup oGroup

Autodesk Softimage v7.5