Get Layout Selected Item

[WesM]

Hey,
How do I store a reference to the selected object in layout. I had been using Mesh(), but It gets the first loaded object.

Thanks,

Wes

[evenflcw]

Not sure what you want, but...

scene = Scene(); //Creates scene obj agent
item = scene.firstSelect(); //Creates an object agent for the first selected item.

After that you can you can use any common (lscript reference manual, chapter 5) or type-specific (chapter 6-10) data member or method on that oa, ex. pos = item.getPosition(time). Naturally if you have several functions inside your script (create{}, process{} etc) you should probably declare 'item' as a global variable.

EDIT: If you want to save the reference to an item between Layout sessions someone presented a clever way to do this by using item id offsets.

[wesleym]

Thanks that will help. I am trying to apply a certain shader to all of the surfaces of a selected object. I now, would like to be able to do this to all of the images loaded in the image editor. I am going to post a new thread on this.

Thanks for the help,

Wes