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expression not working in Add SOP Aug. 1, 2006, 10:43 a.m.

Thanks Wolfwood,

I followed your suggestion, i used a line sop instead to create all the points and then simply deleted them with the Add SOP, after all the points positions are being set with a Point SOP anyway so this way i'm able to control the number of points through expressions which is what i was looking for.

About that custom expression, that's a nice tip my friend, i think i'll be using that from now on, nevertheless i believe implementing a variable to reference the input should be something pretty straightforward for such a great development team

Cheers

expression not working in Add SOP Aug. 1, 2006, 10:05 a.m.

Hi everyone,

sorry if this is really a stupid thing but i was trying to have an add sop with the same number of points as there are primitives in another sop, now i can't seem to get this to work i try to insert an expression in the number of points field but it doesn't let me type anything there. I tried using ‘alt + e’ and inserted the following:
nprims(“../curves_grp”)
Where curves_grp is a group of curves, but the expression doesn't stick when i get out, if i press ‘alt+e’ again there's no expression there. Is this something i'm doing wrong or there's no support for expressions to define the number of points in Add SOP?

Another thing, i think it would be useful when dealing with expression functions to have some variable to automatically reference the input SOP, something like $INPUT or $PARENT that could be used by any expression even if one changes the node input. Not sure if something like that exists but i think that is probably easy to achieve if it doesn't.

Cheers

Virus on Odforce/forum May 23, 2006, 11 a.m.

It's indeed amazing,

What really amazes me is webdesigners and web programmers defending it, i'd expect people designing/developing with IE in mind would really change their minds that exact moment, but surprisingly as it may seem that's not the case, many ppl out there still defend IE even if working on the web design/programming field.

cheers