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

Using ICE to drive text, how?

2016-05-04 Thread Andres Stephens
I was delighted to see that I can use strings with ICE, even arrays. I started working with animation nodes in Blender but quickly hit a snag as my large node trees drove the software to a grind. I could not scale my data sets. I know ICE is better optimized.  One thing I liked about