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inspecting custom parameters

inspecting custom parameters

2005-05-11       - By Adam Sale

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I guess what Bernards saying, is if you want predictability, go the other
route
but if you're prepping these custom parameters for other artists, you're
eventually going to be running around putting out fires when
they can't access the nested properties you've built.

Adam
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Matt Lowery" <matt@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:06 AM
Subject: RE: inspecting custom parameters


>
> Hmm interesting reply... Hack you say... Well sorry to be the bearer of
> bad
> news but the entire concept of 3D animation is a hack, and the fact that
> this kind of "hack" IS allowed in xsi is one of the reasons that I like
> xsi
> so much, it's flexible, you can work however you like :)
> So thanks for that bit of advice but I'm quite happy with my nested ppg,
> other than this small problem that is by no means critical. So forget that
> I
> posted this question... as you were.
>
> Cheers,
> m@
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
> Of Bernard Lebel
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:13 PM
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: inspecting custom parameters
>
>
> Don't use nested ppgs. This is the kind of hack that should not be
> allowed in XSI. If you want ppgs with tabs, use custom properties with
> logic or spdls.
>
>
> Cheers
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On 5/11/05, Matt Lowery <matt@(protected)> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I seem to have this very random problem when I inspect a custom ppg
> through
>> scripting. If the custom ppg has nested ppg's in it then inspecting it
>> returns random results, some times it opens the full ppg with it's nested
>> ppg's and some times it just inspects the "parent ppg" ie, non of the
> nested
>> ones. ( hope that makes sense.) So my question is... how do I force xsi
>> to
>> inspect the full ppg with it's nested ppg's every time?
>>
>> thanks,
>> m@
>>
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