Can I ask what is preventing you from writing to kine.global with the proper chain of operations instead? At that point you'd only need to script a pick-up for the parent's transform to connect into your graph.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]> wrote: > Hope that the title is clear...well...lets start... > > Since the ICE solution is not working for me ( because of the non > possibility to set kine.local that I'm not able to solve ) I'm building a > rig that will be shared among different models. > I have two models: > - ModelA will have all the animations > - ModelB is linked to the nulls inside ModelA via expressions, so I can > modulate ( using kine.local multiplied by a custom parameter value ) in > order to modulate its animation, so if the null in ModuleA moves by 10 > units I can modulate the null in ModelB by multiplying it by the custom > parameter value, so I can move it up to 20 units > > Now I need to constraint those nulls to my custom rig, and it requires > multiple steps in order to get it done properly, as follow: > - Get one of the null from ModelB, lets call it "Mover1" > - Match all the transforms on a null on my custom rig called "animated1" ( > Transforms>Match all transforms ) > - Constrain>position of "Animated1" to "Mover1" > - With the "Mover1" selected, under constrain pick the "Parent" button and > pick another null > > Since I have to repeat it for 30 nulls I would like to automate all those > operations: > I can clearly see that on the bottom left of the screen all the things > that I'm doing are "transformed" into VBScripts lines, so basically I have > the operation that I just did in script form > > Now, I was thinking to do the constraint operations for all the nulls > once, then get all the script informations from the VBScript editor, and > "package" it so next time I need to work on another model ( with the same > names and scene structures ) I can simply run that script and have all the > constraint done with a single button > > I can imagine that is not just "copy&paste" whatever is into the VBScript > editor, so do you have some suggestions on how can I transform all those > operations that I ipotetically did into a working script? > > Thanks > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
