VRay UI and VRAY_ProceduralArg relationship

[nicholas_yue]

Hi,

 

  Looking at the VRAY_DemoFile.C example, I see the following

 

static VRAY_ProceduralArg       theArgs[] = {

    VRAY_ProceduralArg("file",          "string",       ""),

    VRAY_ProceduralArg("blurfile",      "string",       ""),

    VRAY_ProceduralArg("velocityblur",  "int",          "0"),

    VRAY_ProceduralArg("shutter",       "real",         "1"),

    VRAY_ProceduralArg()

};

 

  I have 2 newbie questions:

  (1) How do we pass information to a procedural ?

  (2) I see some procedural having UI, how are they constructed ?

 

For question (1), I found a similar question from 2008 but that has no reply

http://forums.odforce.net/topic/8119-mantra-procedural-shop/

 

Cheers

 

[nicholas_yue]

Answering my own post, I think I figured it out

 

(1) Create them as VRAY_ProceduralArg as normal in the subclass

(2) The UI can be created as part of the Operator Type creation and if the name and type matches up, the information can than be queried within the procedural via get*Parm()

 

Now I need to figure out how to programmatically create the match OTL as part of the plugin builds so that everything can be bundled up without any intervention from the user.

 

Cheers