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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Simon Anderson < [email protected]> wrote: > What Raff mentioned sounds about right. > > .... sends shivers down my spine.... the horror > > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < > [email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 < >>> [email protected]> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------- >>> Simon Ben Anderson >>> blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >> >> > > > -- > ------------------- > Simon Ben Anderson > blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/ > >
