newbie question: How to enter figure mode if i have only deformable mesh selected

[Rick Stirling]

I take it you can't just assume the name of the bone, and then hard select it?

[oglop]

The pipeline here is a mess, many character have different biped_object name , some named B, some Biped01, some #$@#$

[Rick Stirling]

Will there always be a skinned mesh in the scene?

You could select each bit of geo in turn, look to see if it has a skin modifier applied to it, then get the bone name from the bone list.


I've not tried this code, but I think it'll get you going...

You could probably try/catch select the skin modifier, as I recall the syntax was along the lines of:

modPanel.setCurrentObject $.modifiers[#Skin]

Getting the first bone in the list:
theSkin = $.modifiers[#skin]
boneID = skinOps.getVertexWeightBoneId theSkin 1 1
boneName = skinOps.GetBoneName theSkin boneID 0

[RustyKnight]

Will there always be a skinned mesh in the scene?

You could select each bit of geo in turn, look to see if it has a skin modifier applied to it, then get the bone name from the bone list.


I've not tried this code, but I think it'll get you going...

You could probably try/catch select the skin modifier, as I recall the syntax was along the lines of:

modPanel.setCurrentObject $.modifiers[#Skin]

Getting the first bone in the list:
theSkin = $.modifiers[#skin]
boneID = skinOps.getVertexWeightBoneId theSkin 1 1
boneName = skinOps.GetBoneName theSkin boneID 0That's quite a good idea, I like!

Shane

[oglop]

That's a good idea but we r using physique modifier here and it has no bonelist attribute. any other workarounds?

[Rick Stirling]

Sorry, I can't help. As I recall you needed an extra plugin to expose a lot of Physique to script.

My best advice there is to switch from Physique to skin as soon as possible - the physique modifier is effectively dead, and these days Skin is vastly superior to work with. In the long run it really is worth the switch.

[RustyKnight]

Okay, after some playing around, this is what I've come up with.

Scan the scene for any object with a "biped_object" ie classof $ == biped_objectOnce you have this, use:(biped.getnode $ 13).transform.controller.figuremode = trueto control the figuremode.

If there is more then one biped in the scene, you might want to run up the hierarcy until you find the last biped_object who's parent is either undefined or not a biped_object and store a reference to it. Once you've scaned the scene, you could then set them all...

Shane

[oglop]

Thank u all guys for ur patience and detailed answer

but when i manually select a bone ( only one character in scene)

and run


biped.getnode $ 13



i got error

-- Runtime error: Attempt to access deleted Biped

what does this mean, sorry i'm a cs newbie


edit: i found the reason. It's beacause when i save out the character, i didn't select the bone. the animation is correct, but it seems the biped object got deleted...

fyi, i'm using max 8, and the character is saved out from a final animation max file using Saving Selected Command.

Now it works 100%, thank u guys

[RustyKnight]

It would suggest to me that the object no longer exists...

What version of max are you using??

Is the scene Xrefed??

Try creating a new max file and new biped and typing the command again?


Shane

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