Setting Up the Device Driver's Channels

To set up the channels

1. Do one of the following to open a device driver's property editor:

   • Select a driver from the list in the Device Manager and click the Inspect Selection button. The driver's property editor appears.

     or

   • In the explorer, go to the Project level, expand the Data Device Manager tree. Each device that appears in the Device Manager window appears here. Click the icon for the device driver you want to edit so that its property editor appears.

     NoteThe devices that Softimage recognizes on startup will not appear in the explorer until you add them to the Device Manager.
     

2. Activate or deactivate a channel by clicking in the channel's Active cell. A channel is not used if it's not active here.

3. If you like, offset or scale the channel's value by entering a value in the Scale or Offset cell.

4. Map a channel's action to a target by first clicking Action and selecting a type from the list (see the following table).

5. Enter the parameter or command to which you want this action to be connected in the Target text box.

   The possible Actions and Target combinations are listed in the following tables:

   Action Type	Target
   None	Nothing
   Drive	Parameter name
   Command	Any Softimage command
   Special	Command name in the following table.

   Target Command	Does this ...
   ACTIVATE,driver_ID	Activates the specified device driver.
   DEACTIVATE,driver_ID	Deactivates the specified device driver.
   CURRENT	Current selection.
   TIMELINE	Drives the timeline.
   TIME_START	Goes to the first frame.
   TIME_END	Goes to the last frame.
   TIME_STEP_FORWARD	Goes to the next frame.
   TIME_STEP_BACK	Goes to the previous frame.
   TIME_STOP	Stop the playback.
   TIME_PLAY_NORMAL	Plays back from current frame (real-time playback).
   TIME_PLAY_FRAME	Plays back from first frame (real-time playback).
   TIME_PLAY_SLIDE	Plays from current frame (all frames).
   TIME_SPECIFY,frame	Goes to the specified frame.