Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-14 Thread Alan Fregtman
; drive the text. So it stood to reason you could do it using ICE too. It's >> just a normal parameter, albeit well hidden! >> >> On 05/05/2016 11:25, p...@bustykelp.com wrote: >> >> How did you discover that? I had no idea ICE could be used to ‘write’ >> text. It

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-05 Thread Andy Nicholas
y 04, 2016 6:36 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: Using ICE to drive text, how? To set the text for geometry, just create an ICE tree on the text object and make a Set Data with it pointing at "self.text.text

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-05 Thread Olivier Jeannel
dynicholas.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:36 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Using ICE to drive text, how? > > To set the text for geometry, just create an ICE tree on the text object > and make a Set Data with it pointing at "sel

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-05 Thread Andy Nicholas
ICE could be used to ‘write’ text. It makes me wonder what other abilities are concealed within ICE. *From:* Andy Nicholas <mailto:a...@andynicholas.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:36 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:*

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-05 Thread paul
How did you discover that? I had no idea ICE could be used to ‘write’ text. It makes me wonder what other abilities are concealed within ICE. From: Andy Nicholas Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:36 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Using ICE to drive text, how? To set

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-04 Thread Andres Stephens
From: Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com> Date: 04/05/2016 12:37 (GMT-05:00) To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Using ICE to drive text, how? To set the text for geometry, just create an ICE tree on the text object and make a Set Data with it pointing at "sel

Re: Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-04 Thread Andy Nicholas
To set the text for geometry, just create an ICE tree on the text object and make a Set Data with it pointing at "self.text.text". For conversions for integers and scalars to string, you can either use Dan Yargici's "DanyTools" on http://www.rray.de/xsi, or create expressions in parameters and

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
...@skynet.be Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:19 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: using ice to drive text ? I haven't checked Vincent's example - so don’t know what it does inside. But here's (hopefully) another approach. it's a bit low tech, but can be used outside the scope of ICE

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alok
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alok Gandhi Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:12 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: using ice to

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Alan Fregtman
[mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Alok Gandhi *Sent:* Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:12 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: using ice to drive text ? ** ** Sometimes back I posted a few custom compiled nodes to do string manipulations. Maybe

RE: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-30 Thread Jeff McFall
: using ice to drive text ? You can also do... http://darkvertex.com/wp/2010/11/15/softimage-ice-string-to-particles/ On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.commailto:jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: Thank you, I am beginning to see that this approach is probably going

Re: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-28 Thread peter_b
I haven't checked Vincent's example - so don’t know what it does inside. But here's (hopefully) another approach. it's a bit low tech, but can be used outside the scope of ICE, and more interesting: it can display arbitrary data or symbols - the numericals 0 to 9, the letters of the alphabet,

RE: using ice to drive text ?

2012-07-27 Thread Jeff McFall
nice! thank you From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Vincent Ullmann Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 4:40 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: using ice to drive text ? Yes its possible, but a bit tricky... here