About Non–self-installing Script-based Custom Commands
 
 
 

You can augment the native Softimage commands by creating custom commands to perform specialized actions. You can run custom commands by clicking a button in a toolbar or pressing a key on your keyboard. In addition, you can use custom commands in other scripts. Custom commands can also speed up the execution of scripts because only one command is logged to the history.

There are several types of custom command:

This chapter describes how to use the Softimage interface to create script-based non–self-installing commands. However, it is recommended that you create self- installing custom commands instead. See the Custom Commands [SDK Guide].

What is a Custom Command?

While a script is simply a plain text file, custom commands contain the following information:

Sharing Custom Commands

As with all customizations, you can store custom commands in a workgroup or package custom commands into add-ons so that you can easily distribute them to other users. See Building and Deploying Customizations in the Softimage SDK Programmer's Guide.

NoteNon–self-installing compiled commands and events stored in the workgroup path will not work unless your environment is homogeneous — that is, all Windows or all Linux.