this will not be possible because all the references get resolved before the execution of the ICE tree.
Cheers Vladimir On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com> wrote: > The integer to string will help a lot. > > Is there any sort of string to reference node available? > > Or does this work some other way? > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> you can concatenate your strings: "prefix" + integer + "suffix". Now for >> integer -> string conversion there is Eric's emTools freely available: >> http://www.mootzoid.com/wb/pages/documentation/emtools.php#IntegerToString >> >> >> 2012/11/18 Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com> >> >>> Hey guys. Thought I would put this out there. >>> One of my artists is creating the effect of a page turning effect on a >>> book. The idea is to have hundred of pages being flipped magically by >>> another character. >>> >>> The easiest way I found without using ICE was to take a single page >>> attach a series of chains to it, animate a singe page turn, cache it, then >>> duplicate the page, and offset the resulting caches. Works really well, >>> especially if I use 5 or 6 different chain animations to vary things up. >>> >>> We wanted to try and use ICE to see how we could come up with a compound >>> for this mixing vector nodes and shome shapes. >>> >>> So far we have been able to achieve most of what is needed with rotate >>> vector and mixing in a few target shapes that activate based on angle. >>> >>> What we would like to do is construct a string, for example >>> >>> "polymsh.cls.shape.pageOneFlopLeft_<<Integer>>.positions" where >>> <<Integer>> is a value read off a custom parameter from a given object >>> >>> If anyone has a sample Ice tree that does something like this, or can >>> point me to a sample scene or reference that may help me work through this, >>> I would be most grateful. >>> >>> Adam >>> >> >> > -- --------------------------------------- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch ---------------------------------------
