script for turning things on and off

davesolo

how can i make a script to turn things on and off, like smoothing, point at, and shadows etc..

Richard Haseltine

Here's an example of a script that turns smoothing off for all selected figures. Most of the other items would be properties of the figure, not its object, so you could skip that part of the code for those - just use figs[ n ].findProperty( name ); to get the control directly.

// Get selected figures, declare other variables
var figs = Scene.getSelectedSkeletonList();
var nProps , nSmoothProps;
var obj , smoothOnProp;
var n , m , l;

// Go through selected figures
for ( var n = 0 ; n < figs.length ; n++ ) {
 // get the object, which is what owns the smoothing modifier
 obj = figs[ n ].getObject();
 if ( obj ) {
  // Since we have an object, get its modifiers and loop through them
  nProps = obj.getNumModifiers();
  for ( m = 0 ; m < nProps ; m++ ) {
   // If the modifier is a smoothing modifier
   if ( obj.getModifier( m ).inherits( "DzMeshSmoothModifier" ) ) {
    // get the on/off control, and if it's currently on turn it off
    smoothOnProp = obj.getModifier( m ).findPropertyByLabel( "Enable Smoothing" );
    if ( smoothOnProp ) {
     if ( smoothOnProp.getBoolValue() ) {
      // Turn smoothing off 
      smoothOnProp.setBoolValue( false );
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}

Jaderail

Darn I love reading Richards codes. So smooth, so streamlined. Such good examples of coding...