Studio4.5 scripting: how to deal with DUF material presets?

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• Richard Haseltine Posts: 100,460

  July 2012 edited December 1969

  App.getContentMgr().openNativeFile( presetName, true );
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  How would you actually save a native file, i.e. save a .duf?
• 3dcheapskate Posts: 2,719

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  Draft versions of the DS4 'Save a Material(s) Preset' and 'Save a Shader Preset' script samples are up.

  Edit: sorry, those samples are still for writing DSA files!

  Post edited by 3dcheapskate on September 2012
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  Yes, but it's quite straightforward to convert those into SDK.

  I'm wondering how to detect if a DzNode DzProperty is a standard one (rotate,translate,scale etc.) or is a morph. I'm sure there must be a way...

  EDIT: probably something like DzProperty->inherits("Dzsomething")...

  Post edited by Alessandro Mastronardi on September 2012
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 100,460

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  In a script, DzProperty.hasControllers() wil tell you if a property is a slave. I'm not sure there's a simple way of telling if it's a master though.
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Richard Haseltine said:

  In a script, DzProperty.hasControllers() wil tell you if a property is a slave. I'm not sure there's a simple way of telling if it's a master though.

  Thanks Richard, that worked just fine.
• rbtwhiz Posts: 2,249

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Take a look at this example.

  Replace the main loop with the following:
  

  /*********************************************************************/
  // Get the primary selection
  var oNode = Scene.getPrimarySelection();
  // If something is selected
  if( oNode ){
   // Get the properties available to the user by way of the selected node
   var aProperties = getNodeProperties( oNode, true, true );
   // Declare variables we'll be using as we iterate
   var oProperty, oOwner, oPresentation;
   // Iterate over all properties
   for( var i = 0; i < aProperties.length; i += 1 ){
    // Get the "current" property
    oProperty = aProperties[ i ];
    // Get the owner of the property
    oOwner = oProperty.getOwner();
   
    // Get the property's presentation
    oPresentation = oProperty.getPresentation();
    
    print( "----------", oProperty.name, ":", oProperty.getLabel(), "----------" );
    
    if( oPresentation && oPresentation.type == "Modifier/Pose" ){
     print( "Used for posing" );
    } else if( oPresentation && oPresentation.type == "Modifier/Shape" ){
     print( "Used for shaping" );
    }
    
    // If the property inherits DzNumericProperty
    if( oProperty.inherits( "DzNumericProperty" ) ){
     var nXYZInterest = oProperty.getXYZInterest();
     switch( nXYZInterest ){
      case 1: // X_INTEREST
      case 2: // Y_INTEREST
      case 3: // Z_INTEREST
      case 4: // ALL_INTEREST
       print( "Influences transforms" );
       break;
      case 0: // NO_INTEREST
      default:
       print( "Does not influence transforms" );
       break;
     }
    }
    
    // If the property inherits DzFloatProperty
    if( oProperty.inherits( "DzFloatProperty" ) ){
     var nTransformType = oProperty.getTransformType();
     switch( nTransformType ){
      case 1: //  SCALE
       print( "Influences scale" );
       break;
      case 2: // TRANSLATE
       print( "Influences translation" );
       break;
      case 3: // ROT_FIRST_AXIS
       print( "Influences rotation on the first axis" );
       break;
      case 4: // ROT_SECOND_AXIS
       print( "Influences rotation on the second axis" );
       break;
      case 5: // ROT_THIRD_AXIS
       print( "Influences rotation on the third axis" );
       break;
      case 0: // NON_TRANSFORM
      default:
       break;
     }
    }
    
    print( String( "Owned by a %1\n").arg( oOwner.className() ) );
   }
  }

  
  -Rob
• rbtwhiz Posts: 2,249

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  3dcheapskate said:

  Draft versions of the DS4 'Save a Material(s) Preset' and 'Save a Shader Preset' script samples are up.

  Edit: sorry, those samples are still for writing DSA files!

  You were right the first time... The DzAssetIOFilter subclasses are for writing DSON format files. The DzSaveFilter subclasses are for writing DAZ Script based presets, but were never fully exposed to the script API and are now deprecated.

  -Rob
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  I'm trying to convert the .dsa as kindly provided by Rob, but I've some troubles.

  The .dsa getGroupProperties is this:

  function getGroupProperties( oGroup, bTraverse, bRecurse )
  {
  // Declare an array to hold properties
  var aProperties = [];
  
  // If a group isn't passed in
  if( !oGroup ){
  // We're done, return an empty array
  return aProperties;
  // If a group is passed in
  } else {
  // Get the number of proeprties in the group
  var nProperties = oGroup.getNumProperties();
  // Pre-size the properties array
  aProperties = new Array( nProperties );
  // Iterate over the properties, setting each element in the array
  for( var i = 0; i < nProperties; i += 1 ){
  aProperties[ i ] = oGroup.getProperty( i );
  }
  
  // If we are recursing
  if( bRecurse ){
  // Concatenate the properties array from child groups
  aProperties = aProperties.concat( getGroupProperties( oGroup.getFirstChild(), bTraverse, bRecurse ) );
  }
  
  // If we are traversing
  if( bTraverse ){
  // Concatenate the properties array from sibling groups
  aProperties = aProperties.concat( getGroupProperties( oGroup.getNextSibling(), bTraverse, bRecurse ) );
  }
  }
  
  // Return the array of properties
  return aProperties;
  }

  
  I tried to convert it into a SDK function and used the DzTArray to return group properties. However, I get errors in the highlighted lines (concat and GetFirstChild do not exist in SDK). Any chance to get some help? Thanks.

  DzTArray getGroupProperties( DzNode *oGroup, bool bTraverse, bool bRecurse )
  {
  // Declare an array to hold properties
  DzTArray aProperties;
  
  // If a group isn't passed in
  if( !oGroup ){
  // We're done, return an empty array
  return aProperties;
  // If a group is passed in
  } else {
  // Get the number of proeprties in the group
  int nProperties = oGroup->getNumProperties();
  // Pre-size the properties array
  aProperties = DzTArray (nProperties) ;
  // Iterate over the properties, setting each element in the array
  for( int i = 0; i < nProperties; i += 1 ){
  aProperties = *oGroup->getProperty(i);
  }
  
  // If we are recursing
  if( bRecurse ){
  // Concatenate the properties array from child groups
  aProperties = aProperties.concat( getGroupProperties( oGroup->getFirstChild(), bTraverse, bRecurse ) );
  }
  
  // If we are traversing
  if( bTraverse ){
  // Concatenate the properties array from sibling groups
  aProperties = aProperties->concat( getGroupProperties( oGroup->getNextSibling(), bTraverse, bRecurse ) );
  }
  }
  
  // Return the array of properties
  return aProperties;
  }
  

  I could use a .append to concatenate values into the array, and getFirstChild() may be replaced by getNodeChild(0) ?
  But I'm not sure the approach I used is the correct one...

  Post edited by Alessandro Mastronardi on September 2012
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  I also would like to ask something that confuses me.

  In the example above, DzProperty->name() returns the expected name if it's a DzModifier/Pose.
  In the case it's a DzModifier/Shape, the name() returned is always "Value", while I'd expect to return the controller name, such as "FBMBasicFemale" for the Genesis Female Modifier/Shape.
  Am I wrong?
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 100,460

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Should you perhaps get the value channel and then the name of that?
• rbtwhiz Posts: 2,249

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  The oGroup argument should be a DzPropertyGroup pointer, not a DzNode pointer.
  
  If the owner of a property inherits DzMorph, get the name of the modifier... not the name of the valueChannel (which will be named "Value"), that is used to apply the morph.
  
  -Rob
• Alessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,619

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  rbtwhiz said:

  The oGroup argument should be a DzPropertyGroup pointer, not a DzNode pointer.
  
  If the owner of a property inherits DzMorph, get the name of the modifier... not the name of the valueChannel (which will be named "Value"), that is used to apply the morph.
  
  -Rob

  Thanks Rob, I think I finally have a clear idea of how all those properties are linked...