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bendingiscool

11-20-2008, 04:41 PM

Hey, I'm havng a problem with an expression, I'm trying to get Maya to do something when it reaches a current time, here's what I have so far...

int $time = `currentTime -query`;

if ($time = 100)
{

print whatever;// will be replaced by command later on

}

at the moment it prints the word every frame, where as I want it to only print when it gets to 100.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers,

Chris

Norb

11-20-2008, 05:32 PM

change it to this..

if ($time == 100)

'$time = 100' means you are setting the value of $time to be 100
'$time == 100' means you are checking to see if $time is 100

make sense?

Wick3dParticle

11-20-2008, 07:13 PM

change it to this..

if ($time == 100)

'$time = 100' means you are setting the value of $time to be 100
'$time == 100' means you are checking to see if $time is 100

make sense?

Yup...
Also Im pretty sure there is no need to declare time as a variable...maya knows what "time" and "frame" are.

So you can just type this:

if (time > 100){
print "Hello";
}

Also...did you mean "frame" rather than "time" because they are two very different things.

if you want the command to run after frame 100, then try this:

if (frame > 100){
print "Hello";
}

bendingiscool

11-21-2008, 12:18 PM

Thanks guys, completly forgot the syntax on that one ;)

Chris

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