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DIMO

08-15-2007, 02:26 PM

Hi there,

i have a weird problem. I am reading rotation values from controllers like this:

rotzKeys = o.rotation.z_rotation.controller.keys
for k in rotzKeys do
(
val = formattedprint k.value format:"-10.8f"
format "key,%,%\n" k.time val
)

Everything works fine as expected on my machine. But on some workstations this would occasionally return the rotation in radians rather than in degress. If they do shut down max then and restart, everything is fine again.
Has anybody experienced something like this? Is there a way to force the controller to return the values in degree or radians?
Any ideas?

Best regards,

Dieter

kees

08-15-2007, 03:31 PM

I have had to deal with this misery A LOT with Puppetshop.
It is a pain in the butt.

Usually you can get the value from the subAnim instead of the controller.
I.e. you could do:

$object.controller[1].value

(Instead of:$object.controller[1].controller.value)

Not sure if the above example is all that accurate, I'm not in front of max atm, but hopefully you get the idea.

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