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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