I understand Eric predicament. The objectview by default open to perspective, if you tick orthographic, the objectview does not retain the setting when closed and their is not current setting in the attributes to change it in the preference setting either.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/sdkguide/si_cmds/ObjectViewAttributes.html I tried the SetValue("preferences.objectview. ....) way and it is not accessible. +1 on Eric request. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Jon Swindells <squi...@gmail.com> wrote: > wouldn't a relational view with max instance prop set to 1 be the way to > go ? > > if you are popping it up through script i don't see a problem with getting > the camera properties also, > you'd have an easy to search for named singleton if you need it > > or am i missing the obvious here ? > > > On 12 September 2013 20:40, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to open the object view and have it set to ortho automatically. >> For creating and editing bone chains and other things that need to lay flat >> on the plane between root, 2nd bone and effector orthographic is usually >> best. I'd like to not have to add additional objects or edit objects >> already in the scene but looks like I'll have to do so. >> >> If I could get at the camera under the view I could automatically set the >> ortho so the user doesn't have to and I don't change anything else in the >> scene and I can create a simple and streamlined workflow for the tools I'm >> building. >> >> >> On September-12-13 1:35:16 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: >> >>> there is no technical reason for that attribute return value to be so >>> terse, but I'm not sure exactly what you need. maybe you need a user >>> pref to the default camera mode, or maybe you want to open the object >>> view with a scene camera that you control (which should be possible >>> with setattribute) >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Should I even bother logging a feature request or is it something that >>>> isn't >>>> possible because they are dynamic and tied to the view? >>>> >>>> >> > > > -- > Jon Swindells > squi...@gmail.com >
