[Maya-Python] Re: Looking for Feedback on This Face Selection Script

2018-04-04 Thread Darby Edelen
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 d

[Maya-Python] Looking for Feedback on This Face Selection Script

2018-04-03 Thread Darby Edelen
Hello, I'm new to the list and relatively new to Maya. I've been missing a tool in Cinema 4D that allows the user to select contiguous faces within boundaries defined by differences in polygon normal angles (boundaries = hard edges or an arbitrary angle), so I rolled my own Maya script. It se