XSI-MEMO

With the new softimage 2011.5 version, the ICE section that was in the simulate panel was replaced by the new ICE Panel.

this is great, but what if had some script commands in there and your studio still have prior Softimage versions?

 

Here is a script snipet that will check for the version and put the command in the good menu, just put it in the XSILoadPlugin function like this:

 

 

function XSILoadPlugin( in_reg )
{
    in_reg.Author = "Ahmidou lyazidi";
    in_reg.Name = "MyCommand";
    in_reg.Major = 1;
    in_reg.Minor = 0;

    in_reg.RegisterCommand("MyCommand","MyCommand");
    
    //Check for softimage version to feed the menu ( New ICE menu if >= 9.5, else, old simulate)
    var s = Application.Version().split(".")
    if (parseFloat(s[0]+"."+s[1])>= 9.5)
    {
        in_reg.RegisterMenu (siMenuTbICEParticlesCreateID,"My_Menu", false, true)    
    }
    else
    {
        in_reg.RegisterMenu(siMenuTbICECreateID,"My_Menu",false,false);
    }

    return true;
}

 

and if you want to use the new named subsection in that menu:

 

function My_Menu_Init( in_ctxt )
{
    var oMenu;
    oMenu = in_ctxt.Source;
    try
    {
        var oItem = oMenu.AddItem( "Fur", siMenuItemSection)
        oItem.SetBackgroundColor (178, 191, 194    )
    }
    catch(e)
    {
        //do nothing
    }
    oMenu.AddCallbackItem("MyCommand","MyCommand");
    return true;
}

This is a quick test for muscles deformations,
the muscles are fully ICE driven, the system is based on 3 compounds:
-a muscle shaper
-a muscle deformer
-a skin deformer (kind of custom shrink wrap) that is comming on top of envelope.
it's just one day of work, quite promising :)