Adding attributes to sets in maya…

So got a couple of queries on how you actually add attributes to sets in practice.

When cgm.setTools creates a set with selected channel box attributes on the fly, there are a couple of processes going on.

1. A set is created
2. The channel boxes are queried for selection via the function cgm.lib.search.returnSelectedAttributesFromChannelBox
3. There’s an active selection query for regular objects
4. Objects and selected attributes are added to that set

Sometimes you just wanna do stuff  yourself so here’s a few examples. Here’s an example of adding an attribute to an existing set. So in this case, the existing set is ‘point_lightSet’ and the attribute is ‘nurbsSphere1.translateX’:

import maya.cmds as mc
setName = 'point_lightSet'
attribute = 'nurbsSphere1.translateX'
mc.sets(attribute,add =setName)

If you just wanted to create a set from a list of attributes,  you’d wanna call that list into the sets command like this:

mc.sets([listOfAttributes])

I’m curious if anyone out there has an older version of maya (<2011) that this doesn’t work on. Maybe it didn’t allow for this at one point in time and I missed when it changed.

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