Hi Andres, Here's an old trick from my blog:
http://darkvertex.com/wp/2010/11/15/softimage-ice-string-to-particles/ It requires preparing the alphabet/glyphs as separate objects but after that you can type sentences as particles. On Thu, May 5, 2016, 7:34 AM Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com> wrote: > Okay... > > Another way to look at it is that if you go into XSI Explorer with it set > to view "All Nodes" at the top, you can expand the "Text To Curve > Converter" operator, and then expand the Text primitive. Under there, > you'll find a Text parameter and a Width parameter. There's also another > parameter that doesn't show its name. If you use the SDK Explorer, you can > see that it's actually called "singleline" that represents whether to use > single or multiple lines in your text. > > You can drag'n'drop the Text or Width parameters into an ICE tree to get > their values, or use a Set Data to set the Text parameter. The Width > parameter is read-only so you can't change it. You can change "singleline", > but you have to type that one in, as drag'n'drop won't work as it doesn't > have a label. > > None of these parameters have the green divot because their siCapabilities > flags mean they're not animatable (again, see SDK Explorer and this: > http://docs.autodesk.com/SI/2015/ENU/Softimage-Developer-Help//index.html#!/url=./si_om/siCapabilities.html), > but there's nothing stopping you changing them over time using a scripted > operator or ICE. > > Incidentally, if you want to try setting up a Scripted Operator to modify > the text, just right click on the Text primitive (the one with the (P) icon > under the "Text To Curve Convertor") and select "Set Scripted Operator..." > in the context menu. Then, in the Scripted Operator Editor just set the > Update code to read: > > Out.Value.text="Hello World!" > > (and don't forget to indent!) > > Does that help? > > A > > On 05/05/2016 11:53, Olivier Jeannel wrote: > > Would love a more in depth explanation > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com> > 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, p...@bustykelp.com 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 <a...@andynicholas.com> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:36 PM >> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> *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, 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 softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to <softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com> >> softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the >> subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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