How to reorder custom parameters?

[ThE_JacO]

you're not missing much.
the only way to re-order them is on registered properties by editing the layout call.
on a custom CP set that's not registered you're stuck with the order of creation.

[Atyss]

Well, you can always delete and recreate the parameters in the new order..... :wise:


Cheers
Bernard

[ThE_JacO]

hardly qualifies as re-ordering does it? :)

[JDex]

Seems like something that could make a nice, tidy script... have a picking session to pick the new order, and have the script go through and delete/recreate in that order...

[ThE_JacO]

you can't pick parameters, you might use the order of a marking, but it's not guaranteed.
best way to present it would be an adaptive PPG that lists all the parameters and gives you a field to input an integer for the new ordering for each.

however, while recreating the CPset and the parameters is trivial, a CPset is used the majority of times with something connected to it.

if there are expressions or scops driving the parameters it's fairly trivial to re-instanciate those, but if those parameters are actually BEING looked up (which is more often the case), then it becomes a fair bit harder to re-build the whole thing and making sure the whole graph is respected and nothing goes wrong.

it's a trivial script to start, but not so trivial if you want it to actually be fully functional.

[Sbowling]

Well, you can always delete and recreate the parameters in the new order..... :wise:


Cheers
Bernard

Or, you could just create a new custom parameter set and drag them from the old into the new in the order you want them in.

Edit: Pretty sure you can't delete the old one or you will lose everything.

[Chris-TC]

I thought you can just edit the SPDL to reorder the parameters and split them across different tabs? I'm pretty sure I saw that done a while back, haven't tried it though.

[ThE_JacO]

you could, but in that case it would mean your CPset is fairly static (tied to a spdl) and installed.
in that case you'd be better off with a self installing custom prop, which is what spdls were deprecated for.
this still doesn't solve the issue for in-scene only CPsets.

thank God XSI doesn't create a spdl for EVERY single CPset you could create in it :)

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