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locators to particles
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Eric Hanson
Aug 03, 2012
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I have 27k locators from photogrammetry, and would like to convert them to particles, any suggs? I think it might be a simple mel script, but I don't code. Thx!

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Joojaa
Aug 04, 2012
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Its more efficient in python (mel would be dead slow)
















Python Script to turn all locators to particles in one particle object 

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import maya.cmds as cmds

 

pos = map(

          cmds.pointPosition,

          cmds.ls(type='locator')

         )

cmds.particle( p=pos ) # or nParticle


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Eric Hanson
Aug 05, 2012
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Works like a champ, huge thanks Joojaa!

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