v3.0
This object provides the context information of the Softimage FCurve editor. By using the information
exposed by this object, it is possible to write custom fcurve editing scripts or plug-ins which
react to user's actions in the FCurve Editor.
In order to access an instance of this object you need to create a custom command with
the siCommandCategory set to siFCurveCategory. This command will appear in the
edit menu of the fcurve editor so that the user can execute it on demand. The command
takes a single argument, which is a pointer to an instance of the FCurveEditor object.
Using the methods and properties of the FCurve and FCurveKey objects
the custom command can change the fcurves. The user interface will update automatically to reflect
any changes made to the underlying fcurve objects.
The following example demonstrates two custom fcurve editor scripts, and there are
more examples in Netview, under XSI Local: Tools: Animate.
' ' Custom FCurve Command Demo ' 'This script demontrates the Softimage support for plugging in a 'custom command. ' 'Instructions: ' '1) In order to try this code the commands needs to be saved onto disk in a .vbs 'file so that it can be registered. ' '2) install the commands using the following, (changing the path according to your config): ' xsi -script "C:/temp/FCurveDemo.vbs" -main InstallFCurveCmdExamples -args -Location "c:/temp/FCurveDemo.vbs" ' '3) Launch Softimage, '4) Create some animated parameters, '5) Open the fcurve editor, select curves and keys from your animated parameters '6) Try the FCurveEditorInfo and AvgSelectedPoints commands which will appear in the Edit menu sub InstallFCurveCmdExamples( Location ) dim cmd 'Location argument is expected to be the full path name of the script file 'where the commands we are installing are implemented logmessage "Installing fcurve editor commands found in " & Location 'Remove any existing earlier registrations of this command Application.RemoveCommand "FCurveEditorInfo" Application.RemoveCommand "AvgSelectedPoints" set cmd = Application.CreateCommand("FCurveEditorInfo", siFCurveCategory) cmd.Description = "FCurveEditorInfo shows information about FCurve Context" cmd.ScriptingName = "FCurveEditorInfo" cmd.Handler = "OnFCurveEditorInfo" cmd.FileName = Location cmd.Language = "VBScript" 'FCurve callbacks are a sub not a function cmd.ReturnValue = false 'FCurve commands get a pointer to an FCurveEditor OM object cmd.Arguments.Add "FCurveEditor", siArgumentInput, 0, siDispatch Application.AddCommand cmd logmessage "FCurveEditorInfo is now added to fcurve editor Edit menu" set cmd = Application.CreateCommand("AvgSelectedPoints", siFCurveCategory) cmd.Description = "AvgSelectedPoints change value of selected keys" cmd.ScriptingName = "AvgSelectedPoints" cmd.Handler = "OnAvgSelectedPoints" cmd.FileName = Location cmd.Language = "VBScript" cmd.ReturnValue = false cmd.Arguments.Add "FCurveEditor", siArgumentInput, 0, siDispatch Application.AddCommand cmd logmessage "AvgSelectedPoints is now added to fcurve editor Edit menu" end sub 'This first demo is informative - it logs a bunch of information about the 'state of the FCurve editor, in effect demonstrating what you can find out sub OnFCurveEditorInfo( in_objFCurveEditor ) LogMessage "FCurveEditorInfo called - showing information about current context of FCurve Editor" if ( typename( in_objFCurveEditor ) = "Nothing" ) then Logmessage "FCurve Argument is NULL" elseif ( typename( in_objFCurveEditor ) <> "FCurveEditor" ) then LogMessage "FCurve Argument is not an FCurve, it is a " & typename( in_objFCurveEditor ) else 'Now access the FCurve Context listing the contents. dim oCurves, oCurve set oCurves = in_objFCurveEditor.SelectedFCurves if ( oCurves.Count = 0 ) then logmessage "There are no selected fcurves in the editor" end if dim i, strInfo for each oCurve in oCurves logmessage "-------------------------------------" 'build a string description of the frame/keyvalues '(for a real motion capture fcurve this would be too long to display like this) strInfo = "" for i = 0 to ( oCurve.Keys.Count - 1 ) strInfo = strInfo & "(" & Round( oCurve.Keys.Item( i ).Time, 3 ) _ & ", " & Round( oCurve.Keys.Item( i ).Value, 3 ) & ") " next LogMessage "Selected FCurve has the following keys: " & strInfo 'List the selected keys dim oKeys, oKey set oKeys = in_objFCurveEditor.SelectedKeys( oCurve ) if ( oKeys.Count = 0 ) then logmessage "There are no keys selected on this fcurve" else strInfo = "" for each oKey in oKeys strInfo = strInfo & "(" & Round( oKey.Time, 3 ) & ", " & Round( oKey.Value, 3 ) & ") " next LogMessage "The following keys are selected on this FCurve: " & strInfo end if next 'The user may have selected a region in the fcurve editor. This information is available like this: logmessage "-------------------------------------" dim Start, endFrame, Min, Max Start = in_objFCurveEditor.EditorAttribute( siRegionStartFrame ) endFrame = in_objFCurveEditor.EditorAttribute( siRegionEndFrame ) Min = in_objFCurveEditor.EditorAttribute( siRegionMin ) Max = in_objFCurveEditor.EditorAttribute( siRegionMax ) if ( Start <> endFrame ) then logmessage "User has selected time region from frame " &_ round( Start, 2 ) & " to " & round( endFrame, 2 ) else logmessage "No time region is selected" end if if ( Min <> Max ) then logmessage "User has selected key value range from " &_ round( Min, 2 ) & " to " & round( Max, 2 ) else logmessage "No Value region is selected" end if end if end sub 'This second demo is action oriented - it changes the state of the FCurves that are selected. ' 'In this case we take the selected keys and set their values to the average. sub OnAvgSelectedPoints( in_objFCurveEditor ) LogMessage "AvgSelectedPoints called" 'Example of some simple error handling if ( typename( in_objFCurveEditor ) <> "FCurveEditor" ) then LogMessage "Invalid argument to command - Should be FCurveEditor object instead we got a " _ & typename( in_objFCurveEditor ), siError exit sub end if dim bDidSomething bDidSomething = false dim oCurves, oCurve set oCurves = in_objFCurveEditor.SelectedFCurves for each oCurve in oCurves dim oKeys, oKey, cntKeys set oKeys = in_objFCurveEditor.SelectedKeys( oCurve ) cntKeys = oKeys.Count if ( cntKeys > 1 ) then dim sumValues, avgValue sumValues = 0 for each oKey in oKeys sumValues = sumValues + oKey.Value next avgValue = sumValues / cntKeys for each oKey in oKeys oKey.Value = avgValue next bDidSomething = true end if next if ( not bDidSomething ) then LogMessage "Please select two or more keys on an fcurve to average" end if end sub |