'vbscript example demonstrates GetDeformerWeights and SetDeformerWeights

'methods on the Envelope object

newscene ,false

set oSphere = ActiveSceneRoot.AddGeometry( "Sphere", "MeshSurface" )

'Create the skeleton

set oChainRoot = ActiveSceneRoot.Add3DChain

'There is already a first bone automatically created

set oBone0 = oChainRoot.Bones.Item(0) 

set oEffPos = XSIMath.CreateVector3

oEffPos.Set 3,3,3

set oBone1 = oChainRoot.AddBone(oEffPos)

set oEnvelope = oSphere.ApplyEnvelope( oChainRoot, siBranch )

'Access 1-dimensional arrays with the weights

aBone0Weights = oEnvelope.GetDeformerWeights( oBone0 )

aBone1Weights = oEnvelope.GetDeformerWeights( oBone1 )

'Demonstrate how we can read the weight values

for iElement=lbound(aBone1Weights,1) to ubound(aBone1Weights,1)

	if ( aBone1Weights( iElement ) > 80.0 ) then

		logmessage "Point " & oEnvelope.Elements.Item( iElement ) & _

			" is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

	end if

next

'We can use SetDeformerWeights to change the weightings.

'In this case we complete switch the influence of the bones

oEnvelope.SetDeformerWeights oBone1, aBone0Weights  

oEnvelope.SetDeformerWeights oBone0, aBone1Weights 

'Output of this script is the following:

'INFO : "Point 21 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

'INFO : "Point 26 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

'INFO : "Point 27 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

'INFO : "Point 28 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

'INFO : "Point 29 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

'INFO : "Point 35 is almost completely influenced by Bone 0"

//JScript example showing how to modify deformer weights

//via GetDeformerWeights/SetDeformerWeights

var root = Application.ActiveProject.ActiveScene.Root

var n = root.AddNull();

var n1 = root.AddNull();

var n2 = root.AddNull();

translate( n, 1, 0, 1 );

translate( n1, 0, 0, 1 );

translate( n2, 0, 0, 0 );

var grid = root.AddGeometry( "cube", "MeshSurface");

var deformers = new ActiveXObject( "XSI.Collection");

deformers.Add( n );

deformers.Add( n1 );

deformers.Add( n2 );

var env = grid.ApplyEnvelope( deformers );

//get and set the weights from the first deformer

var vba = new VBArray( env.getdeformerweights( n ) );

var jsa = vba.toArray();

logmessage( "weight values before changes:" );

for( var i=0; i<jsa.length; i++ )

{

	logmessage( jsa[i] )

	jsa[i] = 10.0;

}

env.setdeformerweights( n, jsa );

//Show values after changes

var vba = new VBArray( env.getdeformerweights( n ) );

logmessage( "weight values after changes:" )	

var jsa = vba.toArray();

for( var i=0; i<jsa.length; i++ )

{

	logmessage( jsa[i] )

}