The integer to string will help a lot. Is there any sort of string to reference node available?
Or does this work some other way? On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Fabricio Chamon <xsiml...@gmail.com> wrote: > you can concatenate your strings: "prefix" + integer + "suffix". Now for > integer -> string conversion there is Eric's emTools freely available: > http://www.mootzoid.com/wb/pages/documentation/emtools.php#IntegerToString > > > 2012/11/18 Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com> > >> Hey guys. Thought I would put this out there. >> One of my artists is creating the effect of a page turning effect on a >> book. The idea is to have hundred of pages being flipped magically by >> another character. >> >> The easiest way I found without using ICE was to take a single page >> attach a series of chains to it, animate a singe page turn, cache it, then >> duplicate the page, and offset the resulting caches. Works really well, >> especially if I use 5 or 6 different chain animations to vary things up. >> >> We wanted to try and use ICE to see how we could come up with a compound >> for this mixing vector nodes and shome shapes. >> >> So far we have been able to achieve most of what is needed with rotate >> vector and mixing in a few target shapes that activate based on angle. >> >> What we would like to do is construct a string, for example >> >> "polymsh.cls.shape.pageOneFlopLeft_<<Integer>>.positions" where >> <<Integer>> is a value read off a custom parameter from a given object >> >> If anyone has a sample Ice tree that does something like this, or can >> point me to a sample scene or reference that may help me work through this, >> I would be most grateful. >> >> Adam >> > >
