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Up until late 2008, Softimage wasn’t the name of a software product. It was a company with its own unique history, culture, and mythology. For many of us who worked there, it was a special time and place, and a lot of it happened in this building in Montreal.

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1996

Here’s the question: How do you get the texture support created by CreateProjection?

You’re supposed to be able to get the support name from an output argument, but that doesn’t work.

from sipyutils import si		# win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from sipyutils import log		# LogMessage
from sipyutils import C			# win32com.client.constants

si = si()

x = si.CreateProjection("sphere", C.siTxtSpherical, "", "SupportName", "Texture_Projection", "", "", "")

log( x.Value("SupportName") == None )

log( x.Count );
log( x(0) == "" );
log( x(1) );

So instead, I get the PropertyName and from CreateProjection and work my way over to the texture support, via the TextureOp.

import win32com.client

from sipyutils import si		# win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from sipyutils import log		# LogMessage
from sipyutils import C			# win32com.client.constants

si = si()

def dispFix( badDispatch ):
    import win32com.client.dynamic
    # Re-Wraps a bad dispatch into a working one:
    return win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch(badDispatch)

o = si.Selection(0)

x = si.CreateProjection(o, C.siTxtSpherical, "", "Texture_Support", "Texture_Projection", "", "", "")
#CreateProjection( [InputObjs], [Type], [UVDefaultType], [SupportName], [PropertyName], [Parenting], [Fitting], [Camera] );

y = win32com.client.Dispatch( "XSI.Collection" )
y.Items = "%s.polymsh.cls.*.%s" % (o.FullName, x.Value("PropertyName") )

log( y.Items )

txtprop = si.Dictionary.GetObject( y(0).FullName )
op = txtprop.NestedObjects( "TextureOp" )

# re-dispatch it to avoid "object has no attribute 'InputPorts'" error
op = dispFix(op)

txtsupp = op.InputPorts(2).Target2.Parent3DObject

log( si.ClassName(txtsupp) )
si.SelectObj( txtsupp )

The SDK Explorer is good for finding these kinds of port connections:

PS: Here’s a JScript version.

x = CreateProjection("cylinder", siTxtPlanarXY, siTxtDefaultSpherical, "Texture_Support", "Texture_Projection", null, siRelDefault, null);

var y = new ActiveXObject( "XSI.Collection" );
y.Items = "cylinder.polymsh.cls.*." + x.Value("PropertyName")

txtprop = Dictionary.GetObject( y(0).FullName );
op = txtprop.NestedObjects( "TextureOp" );

txtsupp = op.InputPorts(2).Target2.Parent3DObject

LogMessage( ClassName(txtsupp) );
SelectObj( txtsupp )

Two “top 11” lists (because 10th and 11th place were so close, I went with 11).
Only posts that started in 2013 are included.
Actually, looking at the two lists, it seems there was really only one main “hot topic”.

Top 11 most replies

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3. Some news from Siggraph (247)
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5. Another 3dsmax sneak peak (205)
6. New Mental Ray shaders development (167)
7. Softimage 2014 (156)
8. offical features for softimage 2014 & we have a NEW logo (133)
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