What Raff mentioned sounds about right.

.... sends shivers down my spine.... the horror

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <
raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Actually now that you mention it we did have one related to empty
> animation layers creating empty deltas on check-in when activity was
> changed from base layer to other layers sequentially and then never
> restored back to the base layer.
> It was pretty F'in obscure to track.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Simon Anderson <
> simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yip have had it, a few years back. I cant remember what generated them
>> exactly but I have a strong feeling it had something to do with changing
>> resolutions on the referenced model and animation layers... was about 3
>> years ago... so im a bit rusty. As for which is the active one when we had
>> it happen, each delta had different bit of animation on it... was a
>> nightmare.
>>
>> sorry I couldn't of been more help, Sandy you remember this problem and
>> what was causing it?
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Nicolas Langlois-Demers <
>> n...@oneanimation.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> First I'd just like to say it's good to be back in Softimage, with all
>>> it's little quirks... :)
>>>
>>> I've got this reference model that has multiple deltas (4) and I'm
>>> trying to clean it up. The animator doesn't know what happened and says he
>>> hasn't done anything special. Our scripts import a clean asset and create a
>>> specific delta for it on import (similar to what Alan Freigtman has done on
>>> his side - Thanks Alan!). And nothing else that we coded creates deltas.
>>> Have you guys ever had multiple deltas under the same model (that doesn't
>>> have any nested model under it)? If so have you found what caused it (short
>>> of AddDelta command)?
>>>
>>> Also, is there any way to find out which of the deltas is the "active"
>>> one? I tried to find the "Active" parameter under the delta or model (like
>>> http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/models_UsingReferencedModels.htm
>>>  says)
>>> but to no avail. Doesn't seem to exist into SDK Explorer. I assume it's the
>>> latest one created but assumption is the root of many, many mistakes...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help! The documentation is a bit scarce about this and
>>> I'm still a bit rusty...
>>>
>>>
>>> Nicolas Langlois-Demers
>>>
>>> One Animation Singapore
>>>
>>
>>
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