No plug.
tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)stanwinston.com>
To: "XSI_MailingList" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: [scripting] hair geometry
> My question is more geared towards the actual hair primitive object and
> its subcomponents in XSI, and really has nothing to do with Shave.
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 01:33 +0200, Tim Leydecker wrote:
>> I hope this e-mail won´t get lost for being Maya centric regarding
>> shave&haircut as it´s still pretty much a mR implementation thing:
>>
>> http://www.joealter.com/newSite/trial.htm
>>
>> Has a Shave&haircut 4.0 public beta - for Maya.
>> The changes should show up in XSI sooner or later.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> tim
>>
>> P.S: Haven´t touched it yet.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)stanwinston.com>
>> To: "XSI_MailingList" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:29 AM
>> Subject: [scripting] hair geometry
>>
>>
>> > Okay so I cracked my knuckles, and started to get into the nuts and
>> > bolts of the hair geometry primitive and so far I am a little
>> > frustrated. Maybe its because I am still a little wet behind the ears
>> > when tinkering with the internals of xsi, I don't know.
>> >
>> > So down to the nitty gritty. Using python, I am trying to get access at
>> > components of hair geometry object. one of the things I am having an
>> > issue with is finding a direct method in finding the total amount of
>> > guide hairs live on the hair object. Thus far I haven't found a direct
>> > method. The only thing I have come up with so far is dividing the total
>> > number of points found in the hair object by the total amount of points
>> > found in a guid hair. This gives me the appropriate number, but I would
>> > prefer something a little more elegent.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to grab the 2d array index of a point using the object
>> > model?
>> > when I select a point on one of the guide hairs, I get this line in the
>> > history log.
>> >
>> > Application.SelectGeometryComponents("Hair.pnt[(27,3)]")
>> >
>> > However I don't want to use a string argument, I'd much rather use an
>> > object method, however when I try, I can't figure out how to access a
>> > point component in that method. I can gain access of a point by index
>> > number from the pointcollection using the code below.
>> >
>> > xsi = Application
>> > hr = xsi.ActiveSceneRoot.FindChild('Hair')
>> > ohair = hr.ActivePrimitive.Geometry
>> > oPnts = ohair.Points
>> >
>> > I tried appending .SubComponent to oPnts and work from there, but I
>> > can't figure out where I am supposed to proceed.
>> >
>> > any Ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> >
>> >
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