The Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack includes new methods for finding objects.

These FindObjects methods are more efficient than X3DObject.FindChildren, because the FindObjects methods don’t go through the scene hierarchy (they go directly to an internal database of objects).

Model.FindObjects( siClassID )
Finds all objects under the model that match a specified class ID (for example, all shaders or all ICE Trees). For example:

 # Enumerate all shaders under the scene root.
 from win32com.client import constants as c
 shaders = Application.ActiveSceneRoot.FindObjects( c.siShaderID )
 for s in shaders:
 	LogMessage( s.ProgID )
 # INFO : Softimage.soft_light.1.0

Supported siClassIDs:
siCameraID | siClusterID | siClusterPropertyID | siConstraintID | siCustomOperatorID | siCustomPropertyID | siEnvelopeID | siEnvelopeWeightID | siExpressionID | siGeometryID | siGroupID | siICETreeID | siLightID | siMaterialID | siModelID | siNullID | siNurbsSurfaceMeshID | siNurbsCurveListID | siOperatorID | siPolygonMeshID | siPropertyID | siShaderID | siShapeKeyID | siX3DObjectID

Application.FindObjects( siClassID )
Finds all objects that match a specified class ID. For example:

from win32com.client import constants as c
oICETrees = Application.ActiveSceneRoot.FindObjects( c.siICETreeID )
for x in oICETrees:
 	LogMessage( x.Nodes.Count )

Supported siClassIDs:
siCameraID | siClusterID | siClusterPropertyID | siConstraintID | siCustomOperatorID | siCustomPropertyID | siEnvelopeID | siEnvelopeWeightID | siExpressionID | siGeometryID | siGroupID | siICETreeID | siImageClipID | siLayerID | siLightID | siMaterialID | siModelID | siNullID | siNurbsSurfaceMeshID | siNurbsCurveListID | siOperatorID | siPassID | siPolygonMeshID | siPropertyID | siShaderID | siShapeKeyID | siX3DObjectID

Model.FindObjectsFomCLSID( sCLSID )
Finds all objects that match a specified CLSID. You can determine the CLSID of an object using XSIUtils.DataRepository () or by inspecting Softimage objects with the SDK Explorer.

# Enumerate all visibility properties under the scene root.
 props = Application.ActiveSceneRoot.FindObjectsFromCLSID( "{11EBE301-A20C-11D0-8478-00A024C7919C}" )
 for vis in props:
 	LogMessage( vis.FullName )
 # INFO : Camera_Root.visibility
 # INFO : Views.ViewC.SpotCamera.visibility
 # INFO : Camera.visibility
 # INFO : Views.ViewB.SpotCamera.visibility
 # INFO : Camera_Interest.visibility
 # INFO : Views.ViewD.SpotCamera.visibility
 # INFO : Views.ViewA.SpotCamera.visibility
 # INFO : light.visibility

C++ versions:

• CSIObjectRefArray
• CSIObjectRefArray Application::FindObjects( const XSI::siClassID& in_nClsID )
• CSIObjectRefArray Application::FindObjects( const CString& in_sCLSID )
• CSIObjectRefArray Model::FindObjects( const XSI::siClassID& in_nClsID )
• CSIObjectRefArray Model::FindObjects( const CString& in_sCLSID )