[SOLVED] vex groups question

[cudarsjanis]

Hi,

Probably easy question, but what would be the way to make this vex code shorter and work for more @id`s, so I don`t have to copy the same line of code multiple times?

if(@fid == 0)
    i@group_fid0 = 1;
    
if(@fid == 1)
    i@group_fid1 = 1;
    
if(@fid == 2)
    i@group_fid2 = 1;
    
if(@fid == 3)
    i@group_fid3 = 1;        

 

I basically want to make a group for all primitives with same id.

I`m guessing it can be done using arrays, but I`m not too good with them.

Thanks

Janis

[Sepu]

Use the partition Sop.

[ikoon]

Hi Janis,
I assume that @fid is an integer. You can run this in a prim wrangle:

string group_name = "fid" + itoa(i@fid);
setprimgroup(0, group_name, @primnum, 1, "set");

 

[cudarsjanis]

26 minutes ago, ikoon said:

Hi Janis,
I assume that @fid is an integer. You can run this in a prim wrangle:

string group_name = "fid" + itoa(i@fid);
setprimgroup(0, group_name, @primnum, 1, "set");

 

Perfect. This is what I was looking for. Thanks

 

26 minutes ago, Sepu said:

Use the partition Sop.

Nice one. This works nicely as well with fid`rint(@fid)`

 

Thanks guys!

Cheers

Janis

[acey195]

Note that @ikoon's method is faster than the partition SOP at least in 17.0x and earlier, have not yet tested in later versions.

Difference is of course going to be very small, but can make a difference on heavy geo