Re: Animtion Offset plugin

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

Oh, and store your PPG Values into variables before you move on with 
looping through the parameters; XSI is amazingly slow at navigating the 
scene graph, and your script currently digs up the same PPG values for 
each and every iteration.

Something like this should speed up your script considerably, even 
without using any OM hooks...

oFOffset = PPG.FrameOffset.Value
oEndFrame = PPG.EndFrame.Value

<BLA_BLA_BLA_LOOP_LOOP_LOOP>

xsi.ScaleAndOffset(xsi.Selection(i).Name + 
".kine.local.pos*","siInputParameters", oFOffset * i, "", "", oEndFrame, 
0, 0, "siFCurvesAnimationSources", "", 1, "")

<BLA_BLA_BLA>

   -André


Stefan Andersson wrote:
> btw, I'm also going to do a scale version of this. And after that I
> will write a little documentation and howtos.
>
> And.... I was hoping that some scripting genious could take a look at
> this, because right now I don't like how it selects the FCurves and
> offset them. It's fine if you don't have that many objects, but when
> you have a few thousands of objects it can take a really long time to
> run it (though it will run, I've tested it on 2000 cubes... hehe).
> I'm sure there is a object model or something I could use, but I'm
> lost in the docs.
>
> Suggestion and tips are most welcome.
>
> regards
> stefan andersson
>
>
>
> On 9/7/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> > Hello Eric,
> >
> > yeah this is for XSI 6. Here is a simple "howto" with the usage
> >
> > Remember, it takes the objects in the order that you picked them.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ex.
> >
> > 1.) Make 10 cubes
> > 2.) Animate them (translating them all in X=10)
> > 3.) select them in the order of "first will be the leader, second will
> > be... etc"
> > 4.) Run the plugin, select offset of 2, press DOIT and then CLOSE
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Do you have Python and Active Python installed?
> > what are the errors that you are getting?
> >
> > regards
> > stefan andersson
> >
> >
> > On 9/7/07, Eric Thivierge <eric(at)xsidatabase.com> wrote:
> >     
> > > Is this for xsi 6 > ????
> > >
> > > What are the general steps to get it to work cause I'm getting errors.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> > > www.xsidatabase.com
> > > eric(at)xsidatabase.com
> > > Forum Username: EricTRocks
> > >
> > >
> > > Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I finished writing the offset plugin. So if anyone is interested you
> > > > can download it and installed by extracting the python files in your
> > > > users folder.
> > > >
> > > > ex:
> > > >
> > > > C:\users\sanders\Softimage\XSI_6.02\Application\Plugins
> > > >
> > > > http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/sanders3d_xsi_plugins.zip
> > > >
> > > > Restart XSI and you should have a menu called Sanders3D (located
> > > > between "Display" and "Window" menu). I included my little rename
> > > > utility that I wrote to mimic the comet renamer plugin for maya.
> > > >
> > > > They are all really basic but works "ok". Currently ONLY tested on:
> > > >
> > > > WindowsXP 32bit
> > > > XSI 6.02 (foundation trial)
> > > > Python 2.4
> > > >
> > > > The animation offset plugin supports Translate, Rotate, Scale and
> > > > visibility. Here is a small quicktime with a quick test
> > > >
> > > > http://sanders3d.googlepages.com/animOffset.mov
> > > >
> > > > Anyhow... enjoy :)
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > > stefan andersson
> > > >
> > > >
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