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azshall
05-17-2006, 08:54 PM
Is there a way, to force an expression to update/evaluate? .. I do not want the -ae flag on (so that it evaluates every frame) ...

I'm looking to see if there is a command or possible way to just manually tell it to evaluate upon command or when something is triggered.

I've looked into the scriptJob command to do a 'dgdirty -a <object>' .. which tends to work .. but in this case, it gets stuck in and endless cycle and doesn't seem to stop...

I tried doing a "expression -e <expression_name>" .. but .. doesn't seem to force it to update ...

Anyone?

az
azshall
05-17-2006, 09:22 PM
nevermind.. problem solved.

wrote 2 return array functions and 1 process function.

I supply a wildcard string to my first return function which then finds all of the expressions in the scene with said wildcard.

I then supply that return array to my second function which acquires the actual string of EACH expression ...

my process function then takes all those array strings and just re-evaluates them.

This only works because i'm not explicitly forcing things in my expressions. I have over 100 expressions all for various things, ie (30+ different light names) .. everything is named according .. so if i needed all the expressions for like "sky_lights" .. to update .. and they were named "sky_lights_#" .. etc .. then i could force an update when I want .. of ONLY .. those expressions ....

az
ephemeros
05-20-2006, 06:49 PM
i found if i make an expression, evaluating "on demand", it can be evaluated by "getAttr expression1.evaluateNow;" command :))
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