CGTalk - Accessing artPuttyCtx functionality in batch mode

Zac256

08-20-2007, 11:05 PM

Greetings.

I need to access the smooth flood functionality in the artPuttyCtx in batch mode. This sample code works well in UI mode, but does nothing in batch mode.

Note that one of the local procedures is missing. The actual functionality here is not related to the question.

A solution relating to either getting a ctx to work in batch mode or accessing the functionality of smooth in artPuttyCtx will be accepted. Thanks,

-Zac

//==============================================================
/*!
\brief

\author Zachary Burns
*/
//==============================================================
proc _relax(string $vtx[])
{
// Save info
string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
string $currentCtx = currentCtx();

// Setup smoothing
select -r $vtx;
string $ctx = artPuttyCtx();
artPuttyCtx -e -autosmooth 1 $ctx;
artPuttyCtx -e -mouldtypemouse "smooth" $ctx;
setToolTo($ctx);

// Get position
float $xyz[] = `xform -q -ws -t $vtx`;
float $lastXYZ[] = $xyz;

// Flood smooth until the mesh basically stops moving
do
{
$lastXYZ = $xyz;
artPuttyCtx -e -clear $ctx;
$xyz = `xform -q -ws -t ($vtx)`;
}
while(.05 < _fDifferenceSum($xyz, $lastXYZ));

select -r $sel;
setToolTo($currentCtx);
}