Re: duplicate with no history

["Bernard Lebel" <3dbernard(at)gmail.com>]

Check out starting scripting with XSI from Helge Mathee on www.3dtutorial.com

It does not cover the topics you mentioned, but will give you the
tools to find this information yourself. It's a mix of scripting,
expressions and scripted operators. It deals mostly with geometry
deformations, simple mechanical rigs, weight maps, and it even has an
exercice that creates a rigid body animation!

Read my review here:
http://www.xsibase.com/articles.php?detail=102

Cheers
Bernard




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