There is an awesome thread on the softimage list where the small pipeline enhancements softimage users tend to accumulate in their personal collections are being discussed. In it I vowed to share mine to the community as a whole over time on this blog. So here’s the first one… a little python script I keep in a custom menu, which writes a log (as an anotation in the explorer) of distances between objects.
File (<1kb): LogDistances.py
#—————————————- # Log Distances between 2 objects # 2011 A Moorer #—————————————- xsi = Application xsiRoot = xsi.ActiveSceneRoot lm = xsi.LogMessage root = xsi.ActiveSceneRoot def SelectionCheck(): sel = xsi.Selection if sel.Count <= 1: lm(“Select two objects.”,4) return False if sel.Count >= 3: lm(“More than two objects selected.”,4) return False else: lm(“\nLog Distance\n————————“,32) return True #———————— #Distance Between Centers def ctr_dist( objA, objB ): from math import sqrt,pow # Thx to Alan F for this function Ax, Ay, Az = objA.Kinematics.Global.Transform.GetTranslationValues2() Bx, By, Bz = objB.Kinematics.Global.Transform.GetTranslationValues2() return sqrt( pow(Ax-Bx,2) + pow(Ay-By,2) + pow(Az-Bz,2) ) #———————– #Annotate Distance def annotate( nDist ): if xsi.ClassName(root.Properties[“MeasuredDistances”]): prevText = xsi.getValue(str(root.Properties[“MeasuredDistances”])+”.text”) lm(“Logging new distance measurement…\n”,32) xsi.SetValue(str(root.Properties[“MeasuredDistances”])+”.text”, str(prevText)+nDist, “”) else: oSet = root.AddProperty(“Annotation”,0,”MeasuredDistances”) lm(“Annotation Created.\n”,32) xsi.SetValue(str(oSet)+”.text”, “Distance Measurement Log\r”+”\r ————————————-\n\r” + nDist, “”) return #———————– #Log Distance def LogDist(): try: if SelectionCheck(): fromObj, toObj = xsi.Selection(0), xsi.Selection(1) newDist = “\r\nDistance between <“+fromObj.FullName+”> to <“+toObj.FullName+”> is: ” +str( ctr_dist(fromObj, toObj)) lm(newDist+”\n\n————————\n”,32) annotate(newDist) except: lm (“\n——-\nDistance Script Error.”,4) return True #—————————————- #Call the function – LogDist()
There you go… I hope it proves helpful to some of you. :)
I considered sharing my personal workgroup in it’s entirety, but there’s a lot of trash in there I wouldn’t want to burden people with, plus a considerable amount of stuff which Isn’t mine to share. So until I make a “clean” workgroup I’ll just have to post bits and pieces…