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pick() & "GEODE" problem

I created a plane on 3DS, applied a texture and exported it to .IVE

Now I am trying to get the NAME of this object (wall01) through pick(). However I get either "Material #39" on objects with texture or "Wall01-GEODE" for objects without texture. How do I get "wall01" for an object with texture? And how can I make the export not generate these -GEODE things?

Code:

object = viz.pick(1, viz.WORLD)
print object.name

I tried pretty much everything I could find on the forum, and I still have no clue as to how get "wall01" as a return to pick(). Any ideas???

After switching to .3DS, the problem is gone. Is this a problem or limitation with the .IVE file format?

The object.name field will hold the name of the lowest level transform. In the case of the .ive file that is a texture unless there is no texture. What you can do is get a handle to the child object using .getChild and then check to see if that was picked:

Code:

import viz

import vizact



viz.go()

gallery = viz.addChild('gallery.ive')

painting = gallery.getChild('art04-FACES')





def showPicked():

        object = viz.pick()

        if object == painting:

                viz.logNotice('Dali painting picked')

        

vizact.onmousedown(viz.MOUSEBUTTON_LEFT,showPicked)

The following article shows what you can do when you get a handle to the GEODE sub-object in your script:

http://kb.worldviz.com/articles/1157