I want to iterate through all 'things that can be held in a figure's hand' type props in the scene (i.e. not lights, magnets, etc)

This bit of code...

    aAct= poser.Scene().Actors()
    for act in aAct:
        if not act.IsBodyPart():
            if not act.IsCamera():
                if not act.IsBase():
                    if not act.IsDeformer():
                        if not act.IsHairProp():
                            if not act.IsLight():
                                if not act.IsZone():
                                    print("Zeroing "+act.Name())

...gives me this in a simple test scene...

Zeroing GROUND
Zeroing FocusDistanceControl
Zeroing GoalCenterOfMass
Zeroing CenterOfMass
Zeroing valPoArLeafspear

Yes, the question is how to exclude GROUND, FocusDistanceControl, GoalCenterOfMass, and CenterOfMass ? I only want stuff like valPoArLeafspear to get through.

I'd like a solution that works as far back as Poser 6

(I'm fairly sure that for GROUND I'll have to check the name and internal name, but hoping there's something I've missed that'll catch the others)

P.S. also just checking to see if anybody, especially the folks who've been patiently answering my stupid questions for years, is still here... ;o)

This forum seems almost as still as a graveyard. Where's the best place to ask PoserPython questions now ?

P.S.2: That list of 'isXyz()' functions was all the actor ones in the P6 PoserPython manual except IsProp() Trying the logic the other way round, i.e...

aAct= poser.Scene().Actors()
    for act in aAct:
        if act.IsProp():
            print("IsProp YES! "+act.Name())

...gives me exactly the same.

I never found a good answer to your question. Being a pragmatist, I didn't keep looking, but instead added this list of specific named elements I intend to ignore:

ignoredTargets = set(['CenterOfMass', 'GoalCenterOfMass', 'FocusDistanceControl'])

I also have a function I made similar to your giant if statement that determines if an object is an ordinary prop:

def isOrdinaryProp(actor): if actor.IsCamera() or actor.IsLight() or actor.IsBase() or actor.IsBodyPart() or actor.IsZone() or actor.IsDeformer() or not itemHasMaterials(actor): return False return True

def itemHasMaterials(item): try: return item.Materials() except: pass

Then where I want a list of all possible targets for materials or whatever, I do this:

elements = scene.Figures() + [e for e in scene.Actors() if isOrdinaryProp(e) and e.Name().split()[0] not in ignoredTargets]

I don't remember why I split the name and just take the first part. It's probably because some of the names appear with additional tokens that confuse the match.

I don't know how to use this stupid markdown editor and I do not intend to. Sorry about the code line breaks and indents getting messed up.

The markdown is part of the reason I'm not writing here. It's an idiot's tool from 1984. I cannot imagine why we need to take a step back from WYSIWYG.

Also I don't get ebots except for new threads, so if you reply and I don't answer, it isn't because I hate you. It's because THIS SITE SUCKS DONKEY BALLS.

Thank you - I won't look any further then (edit to clarify because of the intervening posts: that was a response to your "I didn't keep looking" in your first post)

And don't worry about the forum de-formatting your post, I should be able to work it out ;o)

when I need to process actors I wrote a script to read a list of actors and delete the odd ones, then I let the main script read that list. there seems to be no easy way.

Thanks, so that's a double confirmation (yourself and bagginsbill) that there doesn't seem to be any easy way. I've already adopted bagginsbill's workaround, although I'll probably ask a few more questions about that (probably at CGbytes)

Anybody else (PhilC, ockham, etc) care to confirm confirm that there's no easy way that they can think of?