Scipt Help Please

[sparaig]

Sorry to bother you guys with this but can you tell me what I am doing wrong? I am trying to get what ever geometry I have selected to instance its self every of many frames. Here is the scrpit,

global proc nhGeometryInstancer ()
{

//Declare the variables

string $objSel[];
int $rateOfFire;
int $time;
int $dupFrame;
int $fps;
int $count;


$objSel = `ls -sl`;
$rateOfFire = 5;
$fps = 24;
$time = `currentTime -q`;
$dupFrame = $rateOfFire / $fps;
$count = 1;

if ($time = $dupFrame * $count);
{
instance $objSel;
$count ++;
}
}



As I am sure you can tell I am kinda new to mel so any help would rock.

-nathan

How is that called?

[BPorter]

change

if ($time = $dupFrame * $count);
{
instance $objSel;
$count ++;
}
}
-----------------------

to this

if ($time = $dupFrame * $count);
{
for ($eachObjSel in $objSel)
instance $eachObjSel;
}
}


what that does is it takes each node in your array ($objSel) and instances each one, if the conditional is true that is. I hope that helps. I'm not really sure where you are going with the whole rate of fire. Are you just trying to instance geometry every fixed number of frames? I don't understand what you are trying to do so if you give me a better idea, I can help.

[kjaft]

if ($time = $dupFrame * $count);
{
instance $objSel;
$count ++;
}
First remove the semicolon at the end of the if line.
Second I think you actually meant if ($time == $dupFrame * $count)
Felix

[n8vfx]

Thanks for the responce guys. First...

"How is this called?"

I was going to use this as a particle to geometry converter on particle collisions.

"The whole rate of fire."

I was trying to make an AK47 fire. As it did it would "kick" shells out of the side of the gun. I was wanting to have the shells hit the ground then interact with each other. So I needed to change them into rigids when they hit the ground. Rate of fire comes in when you want the gun to fire more. I think I was going about this all worng. I talked to apoc519 and he hooked me up with a way to instance rigid bodies. Thanks agian.

-nathan

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