There are definitely some intricacies of pymel that elude me. I don't know, for example, how to get a flattened list of connected faces without using ls. Or perhaps I don't need a flattened list? I assume that I need to getNormal on each face and compare against its connected faces in order to decide which faces to extend to on the next step. Can I do that if connectedFaces isn't giving me a flattened list?
As for the speed at which this script and the similar built-in selection constraints operate, they are woefully slow in comparison to the cinema 4d tool I'm trying to emulate. I think there must be some data built behind the scenes to accelerate this sort of selection. Can you provide me with any further hints? Is your 8 line script able to select upwards of 100,000 faces within an arbitrary angle tolerance in under a second or should I adjust my expectations? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/1198629a-8a12-4618-ae61-caf12936011a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
