Object Merge lots of objects, or something smarter

[kleer001]

I've got an animated airplane with hundreds of individual pieces imported through Alembic. How can I merge all off those Shape nodes into soemthing useful I can create a volume with or turn into a phantom object or deform or such things?

I've tried to brute force individual objects into a single object merge before and it poops out at 64 objects (I think). Maybe I should create a new object merge for each Shape node? That sounds emminently scriptable, but I'm at a loss as to where to start.

It seems like a problem that lots of people would have run up against, but I can't seem to find mention of it here or at the sidefx forums.

[sanostol]

the object merge supports wildcards, like /obj/geo*/*

it's a bit more work if You get nested subnetworks

Edited April 14, 2013 by sanostol

[kleer001]

Yup, time to exercise my rusty Phython skills.

Edited April 14, 2013 by kleer001

[anim]

just un-check Build Hierarchy Using Subnetworks on alembic archive node and press Update Hierarchy button

then use the objectmerge with alembicArchivePath/*/* pattern

[kleer001]

just un-check Build Hierarchy Using Subnetworks on alembic archive node and press Update Hierarchy button

then use the objectmerge with alembicArchivePath/*/* pattern

Cool, thanks! I'll give it a shot.