Here’s a couple of examples to illustrate how to use Sort Array with Key.
This ICE tree sorts points by their Y position.
And this tree sorts points by their brightness.
Sorting points with Sort Array with Value
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Instancing a different object at each point
If you have a group of N different objects, and N points in a point cloud, then here’s a simple way to instance a different shape at each point.
The line of shapes in the background is the group.
Note the use of Get Point ID, which works even if the points don’t have their ID attribute set.
Raycasting
A couple of basic examples, because I didn’t see any screenshots in the docs.
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Get Closest Location and position coordinate systems
When you’re using Get Closest Locations, positions are local. That is, they are relative to the local coordinate system of the object that “owns” the ICE tree. The input Position is in local coordinates, so in most cases, (0, 0, 0) will do fine. And if you use the output locations to get positions, those positions will be in the local coordinate system of the ICE tree owner.
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Getting all shaders under a light
Given something like this:
Here’s how you get all shaders under a light, even the disconnected ones:
from sipyutils import si # win32com.client.Dispatch('XSI.Application')
from sipyutils import log # LogMessage
from sipyutils import C # win32com.client.constants
from sipyutils import disp # win32com.client.Dispatch
si = si()
def dispFix( badDispatch ):
import win32com.client.dynamic
# Re-Wraps a bad dispatch into a working one:
return win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch(badDispatch)
oLight = si.Selection(0)
#import win32com.client
oDisconnected = disp( "XSI.Collection" )
if oLight.IsClassOf( C.siLightID ):
for oShader in oLight.GetAllShaders():
oOut = dispFix( oShader.Parameters( "out" ) )
if oOut.Targets.Count == 0:
oDisconnected.Add( oShader )
log( oDisconnected.GetAsText() )
Hat tip: Matt Lind, who provided the GetAllShaders answer to the question “how to get all shaders in a light, even the disconnected ones”
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