Clone Layer

Submitted by netkingZ on Wed, 2016-06-22 02:53

Hello guys,
i found this script:

fn cloneLayers prefix: sufix: hidden:off =
				(
				for l = 0 to layerManager.count-1 where (lay = layerManager.getLayer l).ishidden == hidden do
				(
				if (nodes = refs.dependentNodes lay.layerAsRefTarg).count != 0 do
				(
 
 
				str = filterstring lay.name "_"
				if prefix != unsupplied do str[1] = prefix
				if sufix != unsupplied do str[str.count] = sufix
				newname = str[1] ; for i = 2 to str.count do newname+="_"+str[i]
				maxops.clonenodes nodes expandHierarchy:on cloneType:#copy actualNodeList:&an newNodes:&nn
				newlayer = layermanager.newLayerFromName newname
				for n in nn do newlayer.addNode n
				)
				)
				)
 
				cloneLayers prefix:"new" sufix:"Dubbys" hidden:off

I want to clone only selected layer. how can do this?
Now the scripts clone layer but objects it doubles inside new layer How can fix this?

Thanks

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Submitted by brainsgonedead on Mon, 2016-10-17 16:08.

Nice one but...

Hi, this is a great script but I keep my daylight system on the default layer and every layer I go to clone it clones the lighting system into my cloned layer.

Does anyone have any idea why or what to change in the script above by barigazy please?

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Submitted by barigazy on Thu, 2016-06-23 01:58.

...

This is the my code :) which btw clone nodes in hidden or visible layers
On the other hand you can use below code to clone only nodes inside current (selected) layer

fn cloneLayers prefix:"" sufix:"" =
(
	layer = for l = 0 to layerManager.count-1 where (lay = layerManager.getLayer l).current do exit with lay
	if (nodes = refs.dependentNodes layer.layerAsRefTarg).count != 0 do
	(
		str = filterstring layer.name "_"
		if prefix != unsupplied do str[1] = prefix
		if sufix != unsupplied do str[str.count] = sufix
		newname = str[1] ; for i = 2 to str.count do newname+="_"+str[i]
		maxops.clonenodes nodes expandHierarchy:on cloneType:#copy actualNodeList:&an newNodes:&nn
		newlayer = layermanager.newLayerFromName newname
		for n in nn do newlayer.addNode n
	)
)
 
cloneLayers prefix:"new" sufix:"Dubbys"

bga

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Submitted by netkingZ on Thu, 2016-07-07 08:24.

Thanks you

Thanks you

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