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suck

07-11-2003, 10:07 PM

We apply mocap to characters in our scenes. Our bone structures must be all be named the same, ie character 1 has hips->lowertorso->chest, and character 2 has hips->lowertorso->chest.

if there were only one node named "hips" i would ref it by looking for $hips... bit what if there are two nodes named "hips", how do i reference a specific one consistently? do i need to look in some kind of scene array and find an index?

any help?

ben

googlo

07-12-2003, 05:02 AM

.handle : DWORD : Read

Gets the node’s handle. It provides a unique identifier independent from the object’s name.

suck

07-12-2003, 07:28 AM

thx for that... definitely works.

is there any way to select by inode.handle without looking at every object and comparing?

googlo

07-12-2003, 09:11 AM

maxOps.getNodeByHandle <number>

Returns the node associated with the id passed in.

Note: It is safer to say $box01.inode.handle than $box01.handle. This is to prevent cases where the baseobject has property called handle, like a teapot, and you get that object’s handle instead of the node handle.

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