getController from array

Anubis after further messing around your script returns just the controller, I need it to return the object and controller

ex. Yours returns
'subAnim: X_position'

I need
'Node[3][1][1]'

Which would be the controller path and the node.

Soory for intrusion. Maybe this will help

fn returnSubAnim obj arr = (
local sa = obj[arr[1]]
if arr.count > 1 do
for i = 2 to arr.count do
sa = sa[arr[i]]
exprForMaxObject sa -- return result
)

edit
Now we will use again "excute" fn after u get the result from below fn

You can work with both "subAnum.value = get/set value" or "controller.value = get/set value", but if you prefer the function to return controller instead of subAnim, then just change last line to "sa.track".

fn returnSubAnim obj arr = (
	local sa = obj[arr[1]]
	if arr.count > 1 do
		for i = 2 to arr.count do
			sa = sa[arr[i]]
	sa.track -- return result
)

b = box()
c = returnSubAnim b #(3,1,1)
isController c --> true

And Node[3][1][1] is still SubAnim. If you need string, then use

exprForMaxObject

as Branko suggest.

Thanks for the snippet. It seems like that is more of what I'm after. I'm never a bit fan of execute. Thanks guys.

or maybe just...

fn returnSubAnim obj arr = (obj[arr[1]][arr[2]][arr[3]])

woops, I miss last note... the sub tree is not fixed to 3, right?

P.S. corrected:

fn returnSubAnim obj arr = (
	local sa = obj[arr[1]]
	if arr.count > 1 do
		for i = 2 to arr.count do
			sa = sa[arr[i]]
	sa -- return result
)

Thank you very much

Hi John
Try this

fn returnSubAnim obj arr =
(
local str = "$"+obj.name
for i in 1 to arr.count do append str ("[" + arr[i] as string + "]")
execute str
)
tea = teapot()
subIndexes = #(3,1,1)
returnSubAnim tea subIndexes