any way to do alternate groupings? (not strict parenting)

thomas_c4201264

Good day,

I'm looking for a way to group objects other than parenting them. (they are already parented) For example, i have characters that have several point lights close to their bodies, which are parented to the appropriate parts. This way, the lights move with them.  Depending on lighting conditions, i like to adjust the lights, easily - color or intensity, so the effect is what i want.  Problem is, i have to search for these lights by name, over and over.  What i want is another dimension or two of groupings, so I can look at and act on these objects together, easily.  I find a similar issue with props, backgrounds, and mesh lights-  things that are geometrically parented, but i'd like to group for other purposes.  Is there such a thing, in Daz or does someone have a trick for it?

thank you

--Thomas

Richard Haseltine

Not that I know. A script could be written fairly easily to check all nodes parented to the seelcted item and select all those of  certain type, or with a certain property. I did have a script, back in DS3, that saved "selections" by writing a custom script that could be used to reapply the saved selection state, but it was never finished up and hasn't even been tested in DS 4.

thomas_c4201264

Ah, Thank you.  I haven't yet dived into scripting, but given how often i finde myself looking for this functionality, it may be on the horizon.