You can use the In and Out Name ports of an empty Get Data as if it was a Passthrough node. That way you can use a single Get Data node to pass its reference via Out Name to a bunch of different subcompounds, each of which uses an empty Get Data to pass the object reference along to various other Get Data nodes to get specific attributes.
gray From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 05:31 PM To: softimage Subject: ice compound references is this all there is ion the docs about references? http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/iceref_Get_Data.htm,topicNumber=d30e557572 I use references a bunch but i start to falter when i want to use them more than a couple of times. i would love it if i could find a way wholesale change the context of everything within a compound. so that all self.* attributes update to the new referenced context as it stands i have to seriously reengineer my compounds if i want to use them outside their original context. another oddity is references do not respect pass through nodes. curious if thats an intended limitation?
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