Entity Selector

Expression to select entities. The expression can be:

• the '*' wildcard to select all the entities that exists in the cache
• a direct selection of a single entity by its ID (for instance: '1001')
• select several entities by their ID, and separated by a comma (for instance: '1001,3001')
• a range of entities, separated by a dash (for instance '1001-3001')
• all the entities of a given Entity Type index (for instance 'et(0)'). (beware, EntityType index is different than EntityTypeID, inspect your entities using Simulation Cache Entity Inspector to know its EntityType index)
• all the entities that were simulated in a given CrowdField index (for instance : 'cf(1)')
• all the entities using the same Character File index, with or without a specific Rendering Type index (for instance : 'char(<charIndex>[,<renderingTypeIndex>])')
• all the duplicates of an entity list / range as above (for instance : d(1001,2001)' or 'd(1001-3001)')
• all the entities used as input of a previous node Id : if the other node selection change, this will also change (for instance : 'i(14)')
• all the entities used as output of a previous node Id : if the other node selection change, this will also change (for instance : 'o(14)')
• a specific entity used as output of a previous node Id : if the other node selection change, this will also change (for instance : 'o(14, 12)' is the 12th entity outputed by the node ID 14)
• Any combination of two previous criteria, separated by a & : result will be the logical & combination of both left and right selection expressions. 

You can nest expressions in d(), such as d(1001-3001) or d(i(14)), or even d(d(1001)) to get all duplicates of duplicates of 1001.

Enclosing parenthesis must be used anywhere where priorities must be handled.

'&' only handles 2 arguments, a&b&c will be an error, but a&(b&c) is OK.

The buttons lets you edit the selection based on the current selection in the Maya viewport.