Switching Animation On & Off in 3D Demo/Tut for 2.122

[thyme]

Open Source Seamless3d 2.122 is available for download at:

http://www.seamless3d.com/download

This version of Seamless completes my third priority for the year by adding functionality to the TouchSensor node. It is now possible to click an object in Seamless's 3d window to make it animate or stop.

This adds a lot of interactive capabilities for Seamless

To see how the Anim node can be controlled using a TouchSensor and a single line of script, see the new tutorial:

Switching Animation On & Off in 3D

This is perhaps the first practical tutorial aimed at the novice to show off Seamless's script friendly design.

I also have 2 short follow up tutorials that show how an "if" statement can be used with ease:

[url=http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/switch_anim3d/play_x_times.html]Play for a Specified Number of Times
Stopping the Anim Node After the Specified Time[/url]

Although no ROUTEs are used in these tutorials, the examples when exported will contain the necessary ROUTEs for VRML/X3D and have been tested to work for Bit-Management Contact.

2.122 has a number of bug fixes including fixes for the built in script compiler but remember the script compiler is at a very early stage in development so please treat it with kid gloves and don't expect anything that is not tested to work

To avoid deep frustration only attempt to write scripts that contain no more than 2 lines (or maybe even 3 lines but that will be pushing things)

Best of luck in writing seamless interactive scripts

thyme

[Alain]

yesterday I was playing with / on that stupid beast :

http://dumenieu.free.fr//louizeforum/seamless/saute.wrl


( seamless3d + vrmlpad )

so today I tried quickly the new features :

http://dumenieu.free.fr//louizeforum/se ... rsaute.wrl

I have to look at more long , but all that sounds nice !

bravo Thyme ...!!! all becomes more and more easy !!


btw ( private message ) I guess that I need more than the

switch_anim0.smls

to get my robot running ,

have you some

switch_anim1.smls
switch_anim2.smls

etc

to be sent to me ...

hafter keeping time to smell the roses in your garden , of course

[Lilly]

Hello thyme and Alain

CONGRATS and thanks much thyme
your Start-Stop système is verry easy
and your démo robot super extra fantastique ! ehehehehe
hugzzzz and bisouxoxoxoxox
hugzzz Alain too
my mouse start stop ;
http://pageperso.aol.fr/SUGAR7306242888/sourisstartstop.wrl

my ghost start and stop :
http://pageperso.aol.fr/SUGAR7306242888/ghost02.wrl

Lilly

[Lilly]

[Alain]

yes yes Lilly , your mouse is very mice , oups very nice
and all that last seamless feature veru good !!

hello and thanx all friends

[Lilly]

ba koi alain tu C plus jacter british ?
ba po graaaav ( à dire avec l'accent de Londres )
tu C faire des monstres unijambistes ( sans couture...
j'suis jalouse car je C pas faire encore )
c'est le principal !
alors tu es pardonné
ugglies, smoochies o.OO !
Lilly

[thyme]

Hi Lilly and Alain sorry about the trouble with the cache files Alain, I have now sent all of the cache files for the new demo to you.

This creature you have made Alain LOL what is it? it looks like it wants to sit down? or is it a creature designed to have it's bottom kicked? LOL
The seamless animation is good though thanks for sharing it with us
Its great to see you managed to figure out the start stop animation too without the demo but I guess the photo in the tutorial explains all you need to know what to do?
How do you find the way you can write interactive scripts without using ROUTEs? I feel beginners should not have to learn ROUTEs and then learn how to add a script node to do something just slightly more complex when scripts can be just as clean as ROUTEs the way seamless has it's scripts designed.

Your Lucrece looks very elegant Lilly I am sure she will sell like hot cakes especially now that she has start stop animation added
It makes me very happy to see you had so little trouble to understanding how to utilise the TouchSensor and seamless's script interface I will make the scripts more forgiving and friendlier with popup menus like many programs have today such as VRML pad but I am content to leave this like this for a while so that I can move onto some other priorities I have in my list.

I am sure you can join vertices together Lilly if you try to do no more than joining 2 vertices together to begin with. The parts must be converted to blue parts first but after see the heading:

Joining a Vertex to another Vertex (J)

from Immediate Commands

Better still see Matthieu's translation:

http://perso.orange.fr/Matthieu/Seamles ... s_fran.htm

Look for the heading: Joindre un sommet à un autre sommet (J)

This section is only 2 sentences so there is not much to understand

Joining vertices is easy already but I will make it even easier to do some time in the future and I will also soon show other ways you can make smooth joins. I have been thinking my duck would make a nice short demo for showing how to use BranchJoine nodes and edit vertices togther at the flat stage but first I want to add visual aids for the BranchJoin node to make them easier to understand.

I think though Lilly you should be content with the amount of progress you have made in the last few weeks, it is amazing to see all what you have done!!! your animated mouse looks great and now it is interactive

O yes and Matthieu has just translated the new switch tutorials:

Animation : marche / arrêt en 3D

et

Animation : marche X fois

so many thanks to Matthieu

[Lilly]

merci beaucoup thyme
je vais étudier ceci
mais pour le moment je vais aller au lit ;o)
bonne nuit thyme et alain
bisous
Lilly

( ps . Alain peux tu faire autre chose que des monstres ? lol
car je serais contente de voir un bel objet de ta création avec
Seamless ! )

[Alain]

is it a creature designed to have it's bottom kicked? LOL

better to kick my own bottom LOL

because I tried the robot at school ( where I have millenieum too )
and the robot works fine !
all is ok , life is beautiful , roses smell good ,
and seamless is great

( and alas Sarkosy is a shit ***


work well all


( *** and alas my home puter too LOL

[Lilly]

[thyme]

It is strict policy to never punish any seamless users or their computers Alain

I would like to know though does the robot ever work for your computer? I mean do you ever see it move the mouse on your computer?

This bottle looks very well made Lilly, and cute even knowing it is for a baby vampire one can not help think, how cute

[Lilly]

merci thyme
je suis surtout fière
d'avoir expérimenté une nouvelle animation ;o)
bonne nuit
bisous
Lilly

[Lilly]

mon biberon a été refusé ( censuré ) par la mall de Cybertown lool !
alors j'ai du changer la couleur des petits cônes et faire
une nouvelle étiquette loool !