Script to select random faces on your object (MAYA)

Select your object, Copy this into your mel  script into the mel box and hit enter it will take a moment and select random faces!



 string $faces[] = {};
  float $selectPercent = 0.10;
  for($each in `ls -sl`)
  {
  int $nFaces[] = `polyEvaluate -f $each`;
  int $sFaces = $nFaces[0] * $selectPercent;
  for($i=0;$i<$sFaces;$i++)
  {
  string $rFace = $each + ".f[" + int(`rand 0 $nFaces[0]`) + "]";
  while(stringArrayContains($rFace, $faces) == 1)
  {
  $rFace = $each + ".f[" + int(`rand 0 $nFaces[0]`) + "]";
  }
  $faces[size($faces)] = $rFace;
  }
  }
  select -r $faces;



Change $selectPercent = 0.10 to whatever percentage you’d like. It’s currently at 10%. This works across multiple objects and will select a percentage of faces per object, not a percentage of the total faces.


This was graciously created by Byterunner

https://forums.cgsociety.org/t/script-to-select-random-faces-on-object/1384634/4



Thanks buddy!