Re: CrowdFX - can't set self.materials on "actor copies" mesh

[Fabricio Chamon]

...but how to access the string array (values) of this attribute?


2013/2/15 Stephen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com>

>  Hi
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> It is a string.
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> // Using one of the CrowdFX sample scenes:
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> SelectObj("Pedestrian_Mesh.Actor_Copies", null, null);
> o = Selection(0)
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> //o.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.GetICEAttributeFromName("Materials").DataArray.toArray()
> // WARNING : 3391 - This ICEAttribute doesn't refer to a 1D array:
> <Attribute: Materials>
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> a = o.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.GetICEAttributeFromName("Materials")
> LogMessage( a.DataType )
> // INFO : 131072
>
> http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/sdkguide/si_om/siICENodeDataType.html
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> On 15/02/2013 3:08 PM, Fabricio Chamon wrote:
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> thanks guys! I rebuilt the scene and started incremental saving
> too...Really hard scenario to work on, I hope this will get fixed soon.
>
>  Another question: it seems really easy, but I can't get the ActorCopies
> ICE materials array via script. I feel it should be a singleton(which it
> is), 1D Array. This js code:
>
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> oActorCopies.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.GetICEAttributeFromName("Materials").DataArray.toArray()
>
>  returns:
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>  This ICEAttribute doesn't refer to a 1D array: <Attribute: Materials>
>
>  and
>
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> oActorCopies.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.GetICEAttributeFromName("Materials").
> *DataArray2D*.toArray()
>
>  returns
>
>  ERROR : Type mismatch
>
>  any clues ?
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