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Animated Parameteric Plug-in Scripts
2020 Hindsight:
This is my first try of Anim8or's animated parametric plug-in meshes. It is cribbed off Steve’s demo files. But I have moved the wave source closer, rotated the wave direction 180 degrees, and added a decaying wave origin at the centre of the grid (offset from grid by 0.49 to reduce the splash height. But this resulted in a truncated splash. Is it possible to subdivide faces on an animated parametric plug-in mesh? ):
Thanks for all your work Steve!
Steve:
Ahhh, yes, subdivided parameteric meshes! You read my mnd. I alrady have that about 3/4 finished :)
2020 Hindsight:
:)
2020 Hindsight:
Hi Steve – you may want to shout “That’s forboden!” at me, but …
The parameter editor only allows 10 parameters, which was a bit limiting on the waves script. Originally I had separate scaling factors for X, Y, and Z. And as an experiment I just added back the “Z scale” (as an eleventh parameter). From the .an8 file I can configure the wave scrip with all 11 parameters (proved by animating big and small waves).
Should it be safe to add extra script accessible only parameters?
If I select the wave object, and bring up the “Parametric Plug-in Editor” then hit “OK”, I get the error “Bad value: Z scale”. And if I hit “Cancel” I get “Anim8or has stopped working”.
If I just load the .an8 script that sets all 11 parameters, I can produce animations without a problem.
Steve:
Heh heh! You're hacking the Anim8or file format
The 10 parameter limit is artificial, I know. I thought it would be sufficient and it was a simpler dialog. I'll see what I can do.
As for adding the parameter to the .an8 file, at least it somewhat works
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