Would love a more in depth explanation On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andy Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've used "text.text" before as an output port in scripted operators to > drive the text. So it stood to reason you could do it using ICE too. It's > just a normal parameter, albeit well hidden! > > On 05/05/2016 11:25, [email protected] wrote: > > How did you discover that? I had no idea ICE could be used to ‘write’ > text. It makes me wonder what other abilities are concealed within ICE. > > *From:* Andy Nicholas <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:36 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Using ICE to drive text, how? > > To set the text for geometry, just create an ICE tree on the text object > and make a Set Data with it pointing at "self.text.text". > For conversions for integers and scalars to string, you can either use Dan > Yargici's "DanyTools" on <http://www.rray.de/xsi>http://www.rray.de/xsi, > or create expressions in parameters and pull those into ICE. > > Cheers, > Andy > > On 04/05/2016 18:27, Andres Stephens wrote: > > > I was delighted to see that I can use strings with ICE, even arrays. > > I started working with animation nodes in Blender but quickly hit a snag > as my large node trees drove the software to a grind. I could not scale my > data sets. I know ICE is better optimized. > > One thing I liked about Animation Nodes in Blender is the fact I can use > any value, integers to strings, on a text object. Great for motion > graphics. > > How do I do this in ICE? I hope it's obvious... > > > -Draise > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------------------------------ > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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