[Closed] Scripted reactions Woe's

Hi All,

so ive been trying to script a foot roll reaction. with standard paul Neale foot roll setup. having played abit with scripting reactions i have found it a mistical entity with what seams to be wierd bugs with creation order of reactions. it seams to me that the first 3 reaction states seam to randomly reorder its number and then after that its locical.

so firstly when you declare

reactTo MyReaction MyController
it creates the first reaction automatically which would mean it should be reaction “1”

then on every declaration of

createReaction MyReaction
it should create reaction “2”

then “3” etc…

instead it creates the order in this way buy pushing the creation back one number so after the 3rd reaction it numbers it this way
1st created = 3
2nd = 2
3rd = 1
which seems fine except once you create the 4th it ends up being the forth
4th created = 4 instead of creating the 4th as 1 and reordering the rest

um… hope this hasnt confused people. bascically instead of it puttin the next creating in the front and pushing the others back a number like it did with the 1st 3 its changes and puttinh the 4th on the back.

my second problem is

when you have 2 varables in the reation state. it seems that you are unable to create reaction this way so you need to create individual reactions for each object in the reaction.

is there anyway of merging reactions?

what is confusing in the maxscript referance is the dicription of how things should be done eg there are functions like. “selectreaction”

should you be selecting the reaction and the applying changes?

it seams that all functions are accessing reactions by its creation order number. obviously this is where i am hitting problems

also if you do have 2 objects in the reation state you can not access the second object within that state. wired! also you can only add this manually

has anyone attmented to do this as i feel that there has been a lack of thought gone into the scripting access of reactions. somthing that would and should be a pritty important thing to do by automation.

anyway anybody experianced any problems? or have i just confused everyone!

here is my script. unfortunally i cant give you the file unless you email me.

 
--MyBone2 = $bone27
MyCtrl = $Circle01
MyR = MyBone.rotation.controller.Zero_Euler_XYZ.controller.Z_Rotation.controller = Float_Reactor ()
MyC= MyCtrl.modifiers[#Attribute_Holder].footControls.footRoll.controller 
--Creates the reaction controller
reactTo MyR MyC
-- create 1st reaction Number 1 by default
--is actually ends up reation 3
slidertime = 5f
-- create reaction Number 2
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 10f
-- create reaction Number 1
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 15f
-- create reaction Number 4
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 20f
-- create reaction Number 5
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 0f
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 3 "footRollZstate"
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 2 "footRollHBstate"
setReactionState MyR 2 (degtoRad -10)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 1 "footRollBstate"
setReactionState MyR 1 (degtoRad -25)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 4 "footRollHFstate"
setReactionState MyR 4 (degtoRad 10)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 5 "footRollFstate"
setReactionState MyR 5 (degtoRad 25)
--then print the reaction name by number to check
getReactionName MyR 1
getReactionName MyR 2
getReactionName MyR 3 
getReactionName MyR 4
getReactionName MyR 5
 

here is the script if i want a foot roll by individually having reactions for each object. which is an odd way of doing things.

 MyBone = $bone26
MyBone2 = $bone27 
MyCtrl = $Circle01
MyR = MyBone.rotation.controller.Zero_Euler_XYZ.controller.Z_Rotation.controller = Float_Reactor ()
MyR2 = MyBone2.rotation.controller.Zero_Euler_XYZ.controller.Z_Rotation.controller = Float_Reactor ()
MyC= MyCtrl.modifiers[#Attribute_Holder].footControls.footRoll.controller 
--Creates the reaction controller
reactTo MyR MyC
reactTo MyR2 MyC
-- create 1st reaction Number 1 by default
--is actually ends up reation 3
slidertime = 5f
-- create reaction Number 2
createReaction MyR2
slidertime = 10f
-- create reaction Number 1
createReaction MyR2
slidertime = 15f
-- create reaction Number 4
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 20f
-- create reaction Number 5
createReaction MyR 
slidertime = 0f
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 1 "footRollZhealstate"
setReactionName MyR2 3 "footRollZtipstate"
--set state values
setReactionName MyR2 2 "footRollHBstate"
setReactionState MyR2 2 (degtoRad -30)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR2 1 "footRollBstate"
setReactionState MyR2 1 (degtoRad -60)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 2 "footRollHFstate"
setReactionState MyR 2 (degtoRad 30)
--set state values
setReactionName MyR 3 "footRollFstate"
setReactionState MyR 3 (degtoRad 60)
--then print the reaction name by number to check
getReactionName MyR 1
getReactionName MyR 2
getReactionName MyR 3 
--getReactionName MyR 4
--getReactionName MyR 5

cheers

john