Hey all,
I’ve got a simplemod thats going to have a pickbutton that lets you select a scripted point helper that is used to define the pivot point of a transform.
Pickbutton works properly sorta…The problem I’m having is assigning the .obj property of the pickbutton or the selected object or any of its properties to a parameter of the simplemod that can be read from outside of the simplemod.
As a matter of fact, as soon as you deselect the simplemod, the pickbutton forgets its selection.
I’ve seen some code samples via searching that define a global variable to store the selected obj in…but considering I could have multiple instances of this simplemod, with different pivots, that doesnt’ sound like it would serve me very well.
I’ve tried to take the obj and assign it to a parameter, and I’ve tried to take just the pivot or pos of the obj and assign it to a parameter, but to no avail…any ideas?
plugin SimpleMod XPlaneObj8AnimRotate
name:"X-Plane Anim Rotation"
classID:#(0x1302dc8, 0x11eccb0)
version:1
(
parameters main rollout:XPlaneObj8AnimRotateParams
(
PivotPoint type:#point3
simDataRef type:#string ui:txtDataRef default:"sim/"
XRot type:#float ui:spnXRot
YRot type:#float ui:spnYRot
ZRot type:#float ui:spnZRot
CCWAngle type:#float ui:spnCCWAngle
CWAngle type:#float ui:spnCWAngle
SimMin type:#float ui:spnSimMin
SimMax type:#float ui:spnSimMax
)
rollout XPlaneObj8AnimRotateInfo "X-Plane Anim Rotation" width:162 height:319
(
label lab1 "This mesh will be"
label lab2 "designated as"
label lab3 "ANIM_Rotate"
)
rollout XPlaneObj8AnimRotateParams "Rotation Parameters" width:162 height:319
(
pickbutton choosepivot "Select Pivot Point" width:120 filter:pivot_filter autoDisplay:true
edittext txtDataRef "Sim DataRef: " fieldwidth:135 labelOnTop:true
spinner spnXRot "X Rotation: " range:[0,1,1] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnYRot "Y Rotation: " range:[0,1,1] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnZRot "Z Rotation: " range:[0,1,1] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnCCWAngle "CCW Angle: " range:[-360,360,0] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnCWAngle "CW Angle: " range:[-360,360,0] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnSimMin "DataRef Min: " range:[-9999,9999,0] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
spinner spnSimMax "DataRef Max: " range:[-9999,9999,0] scale:0.1 fieldwidth:50
on choosepivot picked obj do
(
PivotPoint = obj.pivot
)
)
on map i p do
(
-- We do nothing here
)
)
In addition (or instead of) storing a Point3 parameter with the pivot, you should associate the pickbutton with a #NODE type parameter to store the picked object with the plugin.
.obj is NOT a property of the pickbutton, it is the argument to the on … picked … do () event handler and is destroyed as soon as the event handler finishes executing.
The actual property that contains the picked object exists and is called .object – it contains the last selection during the current session. BUT this property will NOT be saved with the plugin in the MAX file, while a parameter block track associated with the pickbutton would.
I actually got pretty close there…at one point I had tried the association as a #MAXObject, but to no avail…#NODE was the missing link…I’ll give that a shot. Thanks Bobo.
Worked like a champ…that makes this exporter SOOO much more intuitive. Thanks again.