My old rugby team used to use alcoholic drinks as the “code” when doing thrown line-outs – Beer or Cider meant a short pass, wine meant to the middle,…
The word you type in after the name of the word “changed” is not the state that it’s changing to – it’s simply the name of a variable that CONTAINS th…
Why use one line when you can use four, Norman?! Your way is much better, aha.
It sounds like data2 has a new line at the end of it – a carriage return, enter button etc. You’ll need to trim that off. If you can trim it from the …
Well it’s worth bearing in mind that prints are ALWAYS encapsulated in quotation marks, because prints are all strings. If it has only one set of quot…
I think a lot of it is about learning which tool is best for which job. After Effects is a little more limited in that respect – which isn’t an insult…
Again, this won’t be the most direct way, but if you have a string and you want to get rid of certain characters, one sure fire way of doing it is to …
Oops, my mistake – you can’t run readDelimitedString on strings (ironically), you have to run it on StringStreams. So first, you’ll need to convert th…
If you know the format of the data you’re getting in advance – and it sounds like you do – it’ll be very simple. Something like… input_data = port…
Try ReadDelimitedString(). It allows you to define the character that is read up to (ie you can use ‘,’ to separate values). So, as you say, you migh…
Is the information being read correctly from the port? For example, if you print the values of rotX and rotY rather than try and apply them as rotatio…
That’s amazing Jon, well done!
I’ve only been fiddling with cmdjob since 2013 but it has always automatically renamed jobs for me (and I’ve had that occur plenty of times). Perhaps …
This is a really interesting discussion guys, thanks very much. I’m a big fan of commandline stuff, so this is great to read.
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