Creating and Adding to Collections

You can create a blank collection and add items (CollectionItem) to it with the Add method, or by using the Value property of the CollectionItem object. You can also create a populated collection by using wildcards.

To create an empty collection

To create a collection in Softimage, you can use CreateObject (a VBScript command) to create a generic XSICollection object:

' Create XSI.Collection object 
Set oCollection = CreateObject( "XSI.Collection" )

To add items to a collection with the Add method

To add an item to a collection, use the collection's Add method. For example, if oCollection is a collection:

oCollection.Add "CameraInterest"

To add items to a collection with the CollectionItem.Value property

You can also create a CollectionItem and set its value. For example, if you already created oCollection:

set oItem = CreateObject( "XSI.CollectionItem" )
oItem.value = "Camera"
oCollection.Add oItem

To create a populated collection with wildcards

Set oLayers = CreateObject("XSI.Collection")
oLayers.Items = "Layers.List.*"
For Each oLayer In oLayers
   LogMessage oLayers.Name
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