ok, yeah sure email your scene privately to me, dont wanna clog up the
mailing list with it ;)
Haha np, communicating ideas and issues is always hard via text, I get
it all the time when complaining about maya issues to my friends ;)
cheers
On 7/22/05, David McDonnell <dave(at)lastpixel.com.au> wrote:
> yeah that part works fine and thats how I'm doing it.... I dont get any end
> values outside the range rather top end values happening too early... if you
> look at my original expression it evaluated in 3 parts.
> (clamp 0 1(clamp 0 1(objectctrl.y) + objectctrl.x))*(clamp 01(objectctrl.y))
>
> so the first value that is clamped is the y pos + the x pos, next this is
> all multiplied by the clamped value of the y pos... then this result is
> clamped as well.
>
> Rather than just clamping the final output this expression affectivley does
> a big conditional statement on each part to make sure that the values are
> correct. Essentially I'm using the sliders max and min values as the final
> clamp value but the others are actually getting too big too soon and what I
> end up with is the sliders value of 1 is happening before the control object
> hits the exact top corner of the control box.
>
> I think I could write a big conditional expression that does all this I
> think but it gets very hard to visually see whats going on and make sure its
> doing what you want. As John was suggesting I could probably create an
> individual control slider hooked to these parts of the expression to clamp
> them that way and reference those back into my main expression (at least I
> think thats what he was suggesting)
>
> Maybe I should attach my test scn file and you can see what I mean? I think
> half the problem is that coming from max I might be using the wrong
> terminology to explain what I'm after.
>
> BTW i hope these posts dont sound like I'm trying to be difficult... I
> appreciate the help immensely though I somehow feel there is a communication
> breakdown here coming from me ;)
>
> David McDonnell
>
> Creative Director
> Last Pixel Pty Ltd
> www.lastpixel.com.au
>
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> Subject: Re: expression / script question
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>
> well in that case the method i mentioned should work.
> Control box -> expression -> slider 0-1 -> shapeclip
>
> as the expression may take values from multiple controllers, but the
> slider will limit those values between it's range and pass that value
> to the shapeclip.
>
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