Selection order of objects ?

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1

Is there any way to know selection order of selected objects ?

2

The order of selected mesh elements is known to a certain degree, but for objects, there’s only selected and active.

You could monitor the changes over time to in a modal operator or an app handler I guess.

3

Ok, thank you, I tried to make distribute/align script along curve, but dont know the order of selected objects.

4

The selection order seems to be related to when an object was added to the scene. With the last added object appearing first in the list (bpy.context.selected_objects)LIFO. Selection order in the viewport does not seem to matter.

Here is what I imagine the bpy.context.selected_objects internal code looks like.


result = []
for ob in scene.objects:
    if ob.select == True:
        result.insert(0,ob)
return result
5

Thank you also. Its useless to align or distribute 20 objects without knowing the order :slight_smile:
Might be better idea to measure distance of objects to start point of curve. Nearest is first and so on.