Yeah, but that's the thing... for some objects, it displays the entire
hierarchy, whereas for other objects (I tested with a direct sibling) it
just displays the selected object and its relationships. I cannot find
any logic into why sometimes Softimage will decide to display everything.
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 1:43 PM, Stephen Davidson wrote:
are the objects part of a hierarchy?
The schematic view does show the entire hierarchy, normally.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Sergio Mucino
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ok, it's interesting. It's only doing this for certain objects.
It's not doing it for others. I'll have to look into why for some
objects, the entire scene hierarchy is displayed, and not for others.
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 12:52 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote:
No change. I guess some preference somewhere got ticked off. I'll
see if I can locate it...
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 12:46 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote:
No. It just highlights them in the Schematic View.
If I bring up a floating window of the XSI Explorer using the
shortcut, it shows the same.
I'll try deleting it from the layout and see what happens.
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 12:45 PM, David Barosin wrote:
If you select objects in the related explorer on the left does
it filter properly?
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Sergio Mucino
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Well, I don't know why, but after embedding the XSI
Explorer into a Layout Panel, now it displays the standard
Schematic view with everything displayed, instead of the
'filtered' one with only the selected object and its
relatioships. I've been trying to locate which filter I
might have turned off in the menus, unsuccessfully. Any
pointers? Thanks everyone!
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 12:24 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote:
This is awesome! This gives me what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot David!
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 11:43 AM, David Barosin wrote:
You can sort of get that with the XSI Explorer - (alt +
8) and set the viewer menu's display to schematic.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Sergio Mucino
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Eric! Yes, the Hypergraph can get complicated,
but I'm used to finding my way through it rather
reasonably.
I was actually thinking about the scripting side of
things... I'm not sure how scriptable the behavior of
the Schematic View is, but if I could get it to only
display the selected node and any other connected
nodes and hide the rest, that would already get me a
long way towards a happier healthier life :-) .
I will do the search you suggested. Thanks again!
--
*Sergio Mucino*
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
On 18/09/2013 11:12 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote:
Schematic view is probably as close to the
Hypergraph workflow you're going to get honestly. If
your rig structure is clean and organized it
shouldn't be too bad to deal with. I will say that
even the Hypergraph can get a bit soupie.
You may need to write yourself some scripts to
present the data to you in a way you understand.
If I recall there was a command that you can get the
connection info in xml form that shows the 2 way
connections and parse it from there. Check the
google group archive and search for Alan Fregtman's
post about it. I think it's been discussed a few
times before.
Eric T.
On September-18-13 10:47:28 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote:
Hello. I have a very basic question for anyone who
might be able to help.
I just got started using Softimage, and I'm having
the usual problems
anyone faces when starting to use new software
they're not familiar with
(just for background information purposes, I'm
coming from Maya and Max.
I state this just so that it gives you an idea of
the language I might
be using). One of the things that I'm having a hard
time right now is
navigating scene relationships.
I'm trying to find a tool that will help me to
efficiently find scene
relationships, and so far, I haven't found an easy
way to navigate these
relationships. I'm trying to find my way through
someone else's files,
and finding what's related to each object is a bit
of a PITA at this
point. I'm using the Explorer as a starting point,
but it doesn't get me
there the entire way. Let me give you an example.
I've got a mesh selected. In the Explorer, I can
see it's being deformed
by a Lattice, and an Envelope Operator. I need to
find the actual scene
objects that are driving these deformations. For
the Envelope Op, I know
I can go to Deform/Envelope/Select Deformer from
Envelope, and it will
select in the scene the objects that are driving
the envelope's
deformations (I'd rather not lose my selection,
just get a list of the
objects used as deformers, but I'm ok with
Softimage working this way).
However, the Lattice is an entirely different
story. If I select the
Lattice operator and inspect its properties, the
only reference I can
find in the Properties dialog is to its cluster. If
I then find that
cluster in the Cluster folder for my object, and
check its properties, I
get nothing. There seems to be no way I can get to
the actual Lattice
object in the scene deforming this cluster easily.
The only way I've found so far has been to use the
Schematic View. If I
turn on all the Links (for the selected object
only, of course.
Otherwise, I just get a noodle soup), with my geo
selected I can see
links going to different objects in the scene. I
had to track down each
link (which in a scene this size took a lot of
scrolling, especially
since zooming out gets rid of the names on the
links) until I found the
link that had "Lattice" written on it. Then I could
follow it and find
the scene object that the Lattice operator refers to.
I would like to know if there's a more efficient
way of navigating scene
relationships than this. I'm sure than being
completely new to the
software, I'm missing a lot. I've tried googling
around, and asking
people at work, but haven't been able to uncover
much. If someone has
some pointers towards getting stuff done faster,
I'll be very glad to
hear them. Just for information purposes only, I'm
trying to get the
same information I'd get my graphing an object in
the Maya Hypergraph...
a view or list of all relationships for the
selected object(s).
If this is not possible (I understand Softimage
might have a totally
different way of doing quite a few things), if
someone else could
describe how they tend to work to find their way in
the scene, I'd love
to hear that too.
I appreciate any help or pointers anyone might
have. Thanks a lot for
your time!
Sergio Mucino
Lead Rigger
Modus FX
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