[MAYA-PYTHON] Return input nodes of selected object

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Hi, I am writing a script which allows the user edit the basic parameters of the basic INPUT of an object selected in the scene, in my case a polyPipe node created by myself in another script and with a custom attribute, and I want give the user the possibility to change it’s radius through a slider.

Obviously the INPUT polyPipe must exists in history, but how can I access that?

the cmds.polyPipe in edit mode works with a string like that:

cmds.polyPipe(objectSelected, edit = True, r= value)

where objectSelected must have this format:

[u’pPipe1’, u’polyPipe1’]

But how can I access the polyPipe string of a selected object in the scene?

I managed to iterate all the connections until reaching it, but the user could also change it’s name, and in that case my code wouldn’t work.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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Something like this maybe?

def get_nodes_in_history_by_type(typ):
    selection = cmds.ls(sl=True)
    nodes = []
    for obj in selection:
        for node in cmds.listHistory(obj):
            if cmds.nodeType(node) == typ:
                nodes.append(node)
    return nodes

You’d get the polyPipe nodes by calling get_nodes_in_history_by_type('polyPipe') at which point you could edit them with cmds.polyPipe.

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That’s awesome, thank you!