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 >
