[Closed] Scripted Controller Help, Acess own nodes pos?

$.position will only work if the target is selected. don’t know how your scene works, but you can try using the name of the camera like

$Camera01.target.position

ed: you can also use the name as the node…

$Camera01.target.position works for me.

Silly question, is it actually a Targetted Camera or a Free Camera?

What error message are you getting?

i’m pretty sure what you are doing wont work because the script controller is the thing that is setting the position and you can’t get the position without setting it first.
It’s kind of like if you forget where you put something, and you no longer had the ability to search for it, then the only way you’d be able to find it is to know where it is, but you dont, so your screwed…

maybe if you’d like to share a bit more detail on what you’re trying to do we could help with some alternative suggestions

So what is the error that you are getting?

Post your controller script.
The info you want should be in there.

The error i get is “Illegal self reference in controller script”

ok ive got another idea to work around this storing values in the camera. Is there a way to read the constant values from a script controller?

For example i do
mCamera.position.controller.AddConstant myConstant

Is there a way to read this value?
ie mCamera.position.controller.GetConstant ?

	-- setup wireing for our target
	mScriptController = position_script()
	mScriptController.AddNode "mCamera" mCamera
	mScriptController.AddConstant "mTargetSplinePoints" mTargetSplinePoints
	mCamera.target.position.controller = mScriptController 
	
	-- this is a script stored in a string, START
	-- 1. find closest target spline point
	-- 2. use this scale/time to get the cameras spline point
	
	mScriptController.script = "
		mClosestDistance = distance mCamera.target.position mTargetSplinePoints[1][1]
		mClosestTime = 1
		mTimes=#()
		mPosition = mTargetSplinePoints[1][1]
		
		for i = 1 to mTargetSplinePoints.count do
		(
			mDist = distance mCamera.target.position mTargetSplinePoints[i][1]

			if mDist < mClosestDistance do
			(
				mClosestDistance = mDist
				mClosestTime = i
				mPosition = mTargetSplinePoints[i][1]
			)		
		)
		
		mTimes[1] = mClosestTime 
		mPointArray = mTargetSplinePoints[mClosestTime][2]
		mClosestTime = 1
		for i = 1 to mPointArray.count do
		(
			mDist = distance mCamera.target.position mPointArray[i][1]
			if mDist < mClosestDistance do
			(
				mClosestDistance = mDist
				mClosestTime = i
				mPosition = mPointArray[i][1]
			)			
		)	
	
		mTimes[2] = mClosestTime 
		mPointArray = mPointArray[mClosestTime][2]
		mClosestTime = 1		
		for i = 1 to mPointArray.count do
		(
			mDist = distance mCamera.target.position mPointArray[i] --[1]
			if mDist < mClosestDistance do
			(
				mClosestDistance = mDist
				mClosestTime = i
				mPosition = mPointArray[i] --[1]
			)			
		)		
		
		mTimes[3] = mClosestTime 
		--mCamera.position.controller.AddConstant \"mTimes\" mTimes
		
		return mPosition"
		
	-- this is a script stored in a string, END	

cant you use the “self” command? or am I thinking of a different use?

i tried using self, i think thats for scripted plugins. Self doesnt work either :S