Comments on: Custom Properties Persistent Layout

By: Mal

Mal — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:33:29 +0000

Just got round to trying this out. Fantastic, love it. Thank you for sharing.

By: Ahmidou

Ahmidou — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:09:04 +0000

Exellent, thank you for this!

By: Daniele Niero

Daniele Niero — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:34:48 +0000

Hi Solagratia,

That’s not easy to say; I guess proxy parameters, the parameters you create when you drag and drop one to a different custom property, are slower then normals, but I’m not really sure. What I can say is that I’m using almost only proxy parameters, and the rig are ok.

P.S. Thank you Patrick

By: SolaGratia77

SolaGratia77 — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:47:10 +0000

Thanks Patrick, script works great.
And thanks again to Daniele for such a wonderful script

And…. I am sorry but I have one more question>>

What would be the best way to move already existing parameters?

Let’s say I have 20 shape sliders (Custom Parameters) setup on my character
and now I want to move those to GenericProperty.
Should I just drag and drop in the explorer?
(and when I do that, cursor icon indicates that I am making shortcuts)

Then I have same parameters under both CustomProperty and GenericProperty.
By doing this am I making the rig slower?
or should I just not worry about such thing and do it anyway?

Thank you.

By: Patrick Boucher

Patrick Boucher — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:32:08 +0000

Daniele, the < character in your comment was being interpreted as the beginning of an html tag. Fixed it.

By: Derek Jenson

Derek Jenson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:43:39 +0000

Nice. Very clever.

By: Serguei Kalentchouk

Serguei Kalentchouk — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:27:15 +0000

Interesting idea, I had to use similar way of making dynamic UI in maxscript using strings and executing them, not for same reasons but the process was very much the same.

By: Daniele Niero

Daniele Niero — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:29:26 +0000

still not working… the post will be cutted at the “less then” character… strange. I’ll put on internet a zip file with this simple script as soon as I can, or you can mail me to daniele@daniele.niero.name

sorry about that

By: Daniele Niero

Daniele Niero — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:11:22 +0000

Hi,

I’m glad you found ths plugin useful.

About your question, yes, with basic scripting knowledge you can do almost everything

for example a very fast script could be this:

// start code
oProp = Selection(0);
oParams = oProp.Parameters;
layoutString = "";
 
// if you are in XSI 6...
i = 5
// otherwise...
//i = 3
for (i; i &lt; oParams.Count; i++)
{
    layoutString += "oLayout.AddItem(\"" + oParams(i).ScriptName + "\");\r\n"
}
oProp.PropertyCode.Value = layoutString

By: SolaGratia77

SolaGratia77 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:55:05 +0000

Thanks Daniele !!!

I wanted SOFTIMAGE to do something like this in user friendly drag and drop maner.
(eg. dragging properties from explorer view, just like how a toolbar or shelf is created)

But now that I tried your plug-in, my thirst for those is gone.

Thank you so much for sharing this awesome plug-in.

One question>
Is there anyway to add all properties created under GenericProperty to PropertyCode automatically?
What I mean is, let say I have following custom properties created under GenericProperty.

smile1
smile2
smile3
smile4
smile5

is there any way to Automatically generate a basic script looks
like this under PropertyCode?

oLayout.AddItem(”smile1″);
oLayout.AddItem(”smile2″);
oLayout.AddItem(”smile3″);
oLayout.AddItem(”smile4″);
oLayout.AddItem(”smile5″);

Then it would be much eaiser to customize the script from there.
(or am I just too lazy?)

I guess it would involve some scripting but I haven’t got a clue how….

Anyway thanks again for the great plug-in

-J
SolaGratia