capture key

[Levitateme]

what do you mean capture it? what do you want to do with it?

[Nicool]

In macromedia flash actionScript it would be :

on (press "upArrow") {
event...;
}

[Subscream]

that's exactly what I want to do .. but how to do it with Mel ..

is there a proc or command .. or is it just impossible .. ?

regards Joel

[ceql]

Hmm have you tried going into the Hotkey editor and assigning your script to the "Up" button?

[Subscream]

nope .. that was one way though ... hmm ..

The thing is .. I'm working on a car-setup .. with all constraint and
scripts to make it work ... but then I hade another idea.
instead of just animating the movement of the car why not make it controlable through the keyboard ..

this (until recently) I thought was a simple task of just finding the
right command and through a little coding connect your keyboard to your carmodel. ( it's simple in any other scripting language ) But mel it seems dosen't support this .. or am I wrong?

regards Joel

[arangel]

You can easily record the MOUSE position through a script. That can drive a locator´s position and by expressions or driven keys drive your setup then.
This way you can hit play and control the animation through the mouse.

Another way would be exporting your scene as Shockwave 3D and then you can map the key´s functions through Macromedia Director.
You can do this with AW Shockwave Exporter or, better yet, AW Maya RTA (Real Time Author)

Alexandre Rangel
www.mayazine.com.br

[Subscream]

that sound like an interesting idea..

what is the commad for that so I can read more about it?

[arangel]

For the real time mouse movement capture I use the sds_mousinCapture script, by S. D. Serbos. You can find it on High End 3D Animation Scripts.

Rangel

[Subscream]

thanks alot ..

Then if you could capture the mouse movement it shouldn't be that hard to capture the keyboard ..

hmm .. I shall look into this more .. maybe one could add the
commands using the API ..

/Joel

[lazlow69]

Again I find myself following a very interesting discussion, but the link to sds_mousinCapture plugin or script doesn't connect in highend3d.com... Any other ways of doing this: live keyboard capture or live mouse motion capture? Is this built into Maya 6 and I'm just not seeing it?

Would be great fun to have this be a possibility!

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