Re: duplicate with no history

[David Gallagher <daveg(at)blueskystudios.com>]

Are there books or resources you might recommend for learning scripting in XSI? I can do basic things in Mel, so I'm talking about beginning level.

I want to do things like, march through the list of shapes in a model, turning off ShowResult in ClusterShapeCombiner so only that shape is on. Then duplicate a frozen copy, name it the same as the shape name. Move it over in space.

This kind of thing would save me lots of time, but I haven't had time to learn.

Kim Aldis wrote:

Or add this to a button or hotkey or something:-

duplicate( null, 1, siCurrentHistory )

first argument is the item to duplicate, null makes it the current
selection. Second is the number of duplicates and the last magic argument is
the one that duplicates without the history. The advantage over preferences
being you don't have to keep changing them. Depends what you need from it.

Unless of course you mean you want the original object as it looks before
any construction history is added, in which case:

duplicate( null, 1, siOriginalHistory )

but that's not implemented. If it is what you want I guess you could knock
something up that removes the construction stack after a duplicate.


  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
Behalf Of Stephen Blair
Sent: 29 December 2006 18:00
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: duplicate with no history

How about setting the Duplicate History option to Current?

Application.SetValue("preferences.duplicate.history", 0, "")

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
Behalf Of Bernard Lebel
Sent: Fri 29 December 2006 12:53 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: duplicate with no history

Have you tried the "Immed" mode? Bottom right of the MCP.


Cheers
Bernard



On 12/29/06, David Gallagher <daveg(at)blueskystudios.com> wrote:
    

Is there a way in XSI of duplicating a piece of geo so its history is
not attached. No operators or deformers?

I've been duplicating, then freezing, but is there a faster way?

Thanks,

--
David Gallagher
Animator, Blue Sky Studios

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David Gallagher
Animator, Blue Sky Studios