Thak you Justin that's exactly what I was looking for! 


El 20/06/2012, a las 01:04, Justin Israel <[email protected]> escribió:

> characters derive from sets, and sets make use of connections between nodes 
> to establish membership. So you should be able to use listConnections to 
> determine if a set has a parent.
> 
> Assuming your "main" character means a root level character, and "sub" 
> characters are simply characters of a character...
> 
>     c1 = cmds.character()
>     c2 = cmds.character()
>     mainChar = cmds.character( c1, c2, n='parentCharacter' )
> 
>     cmds.listConnections(c1, s=False, d=True, type='character', 
> exactType=True)
>     # Result: [u'parentCharacter'] # 
> 
> I used exactType=True since it could also technically match an objectSet 
> being a parent, since character derives a set type.
> 
> So you could simplify a test like this:
> 
>     def isSubCharacter(char):
>         return bool(cmds.listConnections(char, s=False, d=True, 
> type='character', exactType=True))
> 
>     print isSubCharacter(c1)
>     # True
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM, David Alvarez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys I'm trying to discard subcharacters sets from the a list, I tried 
> through listrelatives command but they don't seem to be related to the main 
> characters sets, so I don't know if there is an easy way to distinguish main 
> characters from the subcharacters.
> I would really appreciate  any help...
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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