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olcho
10-07-2008, 12:15 PM
Hi all,
does anyone know of a way to connect attributes of different numeric types WITHOUT a unitConversion node?
For example, I want to take the rotation attributes of 2 transforms, connect them to a plusMinusAverage node and then connect that to another transform's rotation. I don't need the unitConversion because it's all rotations, but it gets inserted anyway!

And sometimes I do want to use the numbers in the rotation attributes to drive translation or scale or whatever.

And I haven't found absolutely no way to remove the unitConversion. It's always there!
JamSession
10-07-2008, 04:52 PM
You need to have a unit conversion going from a rotation to a math node or any node that isn't rotation. The reason is because the unit conversion is converting a vector to a float. (transforms are vectors)

Conversion nodes can be a pain when you are trying to debug a connection, so to hide them in the hypergraph just do show>Show Auxiliary nodes (uncheck it)

Hope this helps
olcho
10-07-2008, 05:19 PM
You need to have a unit conversion going from a rotation to a math node or any node that isn't rotation. The reason is because the unit conversion is converting a vector to a float. (transforms are vectors)

Conversion nodes can be a pain when you are trying to debug a connection, so to hide them in the hypergraph just do show>Show Auxiliary nodes (uncheck it)

Hope this helps

Conversion nodes don't bother me in the Hypergraph. I know that I can turn them off and
I understand the reason for their existence and their use. It is important, but sometimes I just don't want to use it.
Sometimes I want to use the value itself and connect it something else.
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