Nice Alan! Will check that, does it also report how fast I go on my
jet-pack :D
On 10/16/2013 11:50 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:
Hey guys,
I needed a /speedometer/ the other day to see how fast some vehicle
rigs were really going and I couldn't find one already made, so...
*xsiaddon file for v1.0:*
https://github.com/darkvertex/softimage-speedometer/releases/download/1.0/AF_Speedometer.xsiaddon
*Source up on github* if you wanna help me improve it:
https://github.com/darkvertex/softimage-speedometer
*Once installed you can find it in Get, Primitive->Speedometer.* Have
something selected and it'll pose-constrain the label onto it. Select
points or faces and it'll cluster-constrain (so it can follow
deformations.) Look at its /DisplayInfo_options/ property to configure.
It produces a text balloon with a runtime scripted operator so you can
put it in a model and give it to a friend without the plugin and it
will still work no problem. (No dependencies, yay!)
In 2013 and higher, it employs an /Annotation Object/. In earlier
versions it uses two nulls and an ICE string ShowValues trick to fake
a label. (I couldn't get the scop and icetree cooperating under one
null unfortunately.)
You tell it the world scale of 1m in xsi units (10 by default), and
you can toggle units on/off including:
xsi/s, m/s, ft/s, kmh, mph, knots and even Mach number
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number> (so finally you can sleep
at night knowing the jetplanes in your animation were truly supersonic.)
Hope it's useful to somebody.
Cheers,
-- Alan
ps: If you find bugs, post in the Issues page on the github project,
thanks.
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