Mograph and Xpresso Question

[Srek]

Do you want to change a clones postion or rotation directly using Xpresso? That won't work.
Of course you can control the MoGraph generators with Xpresso (like every other parametric object) and you have several new Xpresso nodes coming with MoGraph that allow for interesting use.

Cheers
Björn

[robotbob]

you can modify the clones with thinking particles however. If you have TP look at the settings in the matrix object.

pedro

[mnu]

Thank you both,

ok, that means, if I understand you correctly, as long as I use mograph to generate TP i'll be able to set pos rot scale, but there's no way to touch individual mograph clones directly using Xpresso. I thought of generating a bunch of clones using a Cloner object and then moving the nth clone 200 units by xpresso. This isn't possible?
Is there a way to write custom Effectors using Xpresso, COFFEE or C++ then?

cheers mnu

[robotbob]

hey

srek is far better qualified to answer this, but as far as my experiments have taken me, the indexing on the clones is not exactly easy to trace. so if you wanted to target number 123 of 500 clones you might not be able too. i also might be wrong on this ( and hope that i am ) .

pedro

[Srek]

Indeed the problem is to know which clone to adress.
Via the Matrix object TP can be used to control clones, but the dependency between TP and MoGraph is not selective. It's either all clones are controlled by TP or not, you can vary the degree only for all clones at once.
Cheers
Björn

[robotbob]

'It's either all clones are controlled by TP or not'

that is a disappointment, i would have thought indexing the clones would have been rudimentary.

sigh*

[Mylenium]

'It's either all clones are controlled by TP or not'

that is a disappointment, i would have thought indexing the clones would have been rudimentary.

sigh*

As I understand it, each clone gets assigned a float value rather than a unique index, possibly to maintain precision when doing complex setups.

Mylenium

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