[Closed] Mini-Challenge #5. Are you ready?

Sounds like a fun challenge!

I’m trying to think of a quick way of doing this and all I can come up with is horrible loops within loops.

Sounds like a good challenge. I’m in

I’m up for it, let’s play

Great! We have a company!
Here is a test scene:

(
	seed 0
	delete objects
	smat = Standard()
	cont = Bezier_Float()
	addnewkey cont 50f
	smat.opacity.controller = cont
	
	mmat = MultiMaterial numsubs:2
	mmat[2] = smat
	
	attr = attributes attr 
	(
		parameters params 
		(
			value type:#float
		)
	)
	
	modi = NoiseModifier()
	modi.scale.controller = cont

	text = Noise()
	text.size.controller = cont

	empt = EmptyModifier()
	custattributes.add empt attr
	empt.attr.value.controller = cont
	
	cmat = Standard()
	custattributes.add cmat attr
	cmat.attr.value.controller = cont
	
	mats = #(smat, mmat, Standard diffusemap:text, cmat, Standard(), Standard())
	
	nodes = for k=1 to 1000 do
	(
		b = box()
		if (random 1 10) < 5 do b.mat = mats[random 1 mats.count]
		if (random 1 10) < 3 do b.controller.pos.controller[1].controller = cont
		if (random 1 10) < 2 do addmodifier b modi 
		if (random 1 10) > 8 do addmodifier b empt
		if (random 1 10) > 9 do 
		(
			custattributes.add b attr baseobject:on
			b.baseobject.value.controller = cont
		)
		if (random 1 10) < 2 do 
		(
			custattributes.add b attr baseobject:off
			b.value.controller = cont
		)
		if (random 1 10) > 7 do b.width.controller = cont 
		if (random 1 10) < 1 do 
		(
			converttomesh b
			animatevertex b #all
			addnewkey b.baseobject[#master_point_controller].vertex_1.controller 40f
		)
	)
	gc()
)

there are only 1000 nodes… but to get all animated ones takes … I don’t tell how long it takes. Just try and see.

The animated node is any node that has any related animated track.
The animated track is a track that has a key.

Here is a life situation: select all animated nodes to move/scale all their keys …
It’s pretty usual, isn’t it?

But before doing this just try to find all animated nodes

try to cover at least all types/kinds of animation that I give in the test.
but the main idea is to find any source of animation…

here is a reference point (my version):

(
	t1 = timestamp()
	m1 = heapfree
	a = findAnimatedNodes()
	format "nodes:%
	time:% memory:%
" a.count (timestamp() - t1) (m1 - heapfree)
)
/* result is:
nodes:753
	time:244 memory:1704L
*/

my first attempt was ~1.5 sec to get them all…

~15 secs for 10,000 nodes is VERY slow. I was really shocked.
~2.5 secs is still slow. But hopefully we will find a better solution.

here are some numbers (not 100% sure that I’m right):
only transform animation: 183
only modifiers animation: 111
only material animation: 197
…

Enjoy the challenge!
Happy Turkey for all Americans and Have a Nice Day for all of us!

Hmm this is proving to be pretty difficult. There are so many damn properties to check!!

So far I have a function that checks for baseObject properties, modifier properties and controllers (recursively). I still need to add materials but this is quite tricky.

Results:
nodes:499
time:94 memory:39544L

P.S. I’m a little unsure what the memory usage means. Is this the memory consumed by the function during processing? In bytes or kb, or something else?