Symbolic Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Hi, I have a problem exporting channel data after a switch... It seems like the switch is not processed while saving the data... I have object_A -> t[xyz] r[xyz] and object_B -> t[xyz] r[xyz] There is a switch that switches between those two geometry nodes... So I can see the graph being swithced while playing back... but the data is only either for A or for B... So I created two chan files... object_A.chan and object_B.chan... I copy pasted sections from one file and sections from the other in a new file... this solved the prioblem... It is quite primitive solution though... what is the actual way of doing this? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Hey man are doing this is CHOPS ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 Hey! yep... chops... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Works fine for me ... attached is what I tried. chop_switch_export.hip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 Works fine for me ... attached is what I tried. Ow! Thanks edward... It works for me as well... and it works for me in this way in my example... But as soon as I write out a *.chan file... it is just only one of the data that is written... the effect of the switch is not there... It happens with your example as well... as soon as I write the data to a file... after the switch... and read it in back with a file chop... plug it in into the export... the ball stays at the same place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Hmm ... It could be that .chan file output is broken since it's a legacy format. Try outputtin to .clip instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Ah right, now I remember. The .chan format (which originates from PRISMS) doesn't store channel names at all. If you use them, you have to rename them to the channels you want. MMB on the File CHOP to double-check. Use .clip (ASCII) or .bclip (binary) instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 So you say that... the data written to the clip file will update as the switcher switches between two sources... So it will be something like that... FRAME TX TY TZ 1 0.1 0.4 0.6 2 0.2 0.4 0.6 3 0.3 0.4 0.6 4 2.1 1.1 4.5 5 2.2 1.1 4.5 6 2.3 1.1 4.5 . . . here we switch to a different object at frame 4. I will have to try that. thanks. The only reason that I am trying the chan file is that nuke accepts only chan files for the camera data? right? And I have two cameras and a switch that goes between those two cameras. So I need the nuke camera to jump to the corresponding positions. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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