Correct. I reported the bug at the end of the beta for 2015, it works fine
in 2013 but breaks after 2014.

I hope that this regression bug is a low hanging fruit that they can get to
soon.


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Volkmann
<[email protected]>wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  we just opened up an old scene and found that some objects were moving
> strange on their curves. It seems some bug was introduced to the
> path-constrain operator when using closed curves and tangency. Tangency is
> doing something wrong.
>
>  A little python-script to reproduce:
>
>
> Application.NewScene("", "")
> Application.SICreateCurve("crvlist", 3, 0)
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", -4.12493302610738, 0,
> -1.5985306969839, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", -1.94612224821476, 0,
> -2.72067807367415, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", 2.89802986962416, 0,
> -3.2076476899737, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", 6.282590301302, 0,
> 1.95846476120408, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", 0.973061124107382, 0,
> 4.54152098679297, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", -2.87687636692617, 0,
> 3.71578989828504, False, 0, "")
> Application.SIAddPointOnCurveAtEnd("crvlist", -5.01338013942281, 0,
> 1.09038848867011, False, 0, "")
> Application.ApplyTopoOp("CrvOpenClose", "crvlist", 3,
> "siPersistentOperation", "")
> Application.ActivateObjectSelTool("")
> Application.ActivateObjectSelTool("")
> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "")
> Application.ApplyCns("Path", "null", "crvlist", "")
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.perc", 3.646, "")   # on linux the
> objects rotation will be nan when this is 0 and tangency gets activated
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.tangent", True, "")
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.dirx", 0, "")
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.diry", 0, "")
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.dirz", 1, "")
> Application.SetValue("null.kine.pathcns.upvct_active", True, "")
>
>
>
> When you now move the path age slider you will notice that the null
> doesn't align to the curve like it should.
> Some observations:
>  + was introduced either with 2014SP1 or SP2  (works in 2014 but not in
> SP2 or 2015, don't have SP1 available atm)
>  + only closed handmade curves are affected (but not
> getPrimitve->curve->circle)
>  + null rotation becomes 'nan' on linux when path-age is 0 and tangency is
> activated (no problem on windows)
>
>  Please please fix it for for the absolute final Softimage version!
>
>  cheers,
>  Thomas
>
>



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