a friend was recently doing a skydiving sequence, got everything physically scaled and accurately animated, only for the client to request it moved 10 times as fast, but fell for as long
hmmmm a _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alok Gandhi Sent: 16 October 2013 16:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: My Speedometer plugin Nice Alan! Will check that, does it also report how fast I go on my jet-pack :D On 10/16/2013 11:50 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Hey guys, I needed a speedometer the other day to see how fast some vehicle rigs were really going and I couldn't find one already made, so... xsiaddon file for v1.0: https://github.com/darkvertex/softimage-speedometer/releases/download/1.0/AF _Speedometer.xsiaddon Source up on github if you wanna help me improve it: https://github.com/darkvertex/softimage-speedometer Once installed you can find it in Get, Primitive->Speedometer. Have something selected and it'll pose-constrain the label onto it. Select points or faces and it'll cluster-constrain (so it can follow deformations.) Look at its DisplayInfo_options property to configure. It produces a text balloon with a runtime scripted operator so you can put it in a model and give it to a friend without the plugin and it will still work no problem. (No dependencies, yay!) In 2013 and higher, it employs an Annotation Object. In earlier versions it uses two nulls and an ICE string ShowValues trick to fake a label. (I couldn't get the scop and icetree cooperating under one null unfortunately.) You tell it the world scale of 1m in xsi units (10 by default), and you can toggle units on/off including: xsi/s, m/s, ft/s, kmh, mph, knots and even Mach <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number> number (so finally you can sleep at night knowing the jetplanes in your animation were truly supersonic.) Hope it's useful to somebody. Cheers, -- Alan ps: If you find bugs, post in the Issues page on the github project, thanks. -- ALOK GANDHI / directeur technique senior- senior technical director <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] T: 450 430-0010 x225 F: 450 430-0009 <http://www.modusfx.com> www.modusfx.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- MODUS FX 120 Rue Turgeon, Sainte-Therese (Quebec) CANADA J7E 3J1 Follow us on <http://www.facebook.com/ModusFX> Facebook & <https://twitter.com/Modusfx> Twitter _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3408 / Virus Database: 3222/6753 - Release Date: 10/15/13
