Hi Francisco,
For that you'd best do a custom (C++) device capture driver to use with the
Softimage Device Manager (under Animate, Tools, Devices->Manage Device
Drivers.) I think there is an SDK example of a mouse driver. (Again, this
will require programming skills.)
Cheers,
-- Alan
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:10 PM, francisco criado <malcriad...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Alan, thanks again!
> the idea is to get accelerometer data from a device (already got that) and
> connect it to a kine.global property in Softimage. Thought that maybe there
> was already some workaround via capture/devices/tools but could not find
> anything, and remembered reading something in the group about getting this
> kind of data from udp.
> F.
>
>
>
> 2013/11/28 Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com>
>
>> xsiaddon files you're typically are used to are but containers for one or
>> more plugin files, which are often scripts.
>>
>> If you download the repo (click "Download zip" on the right side) and
>> extract somewhere, there's an Addons folder and inside it one folder, the
>> addon.
>>
>> Move that folder to your Addons folder in your personal Softimage user
>> root. To get the path you can go in Softimage, File->Plugin Manager, and in
>> the list rightclick on "User Root" and click "Browse" and you'll see a
>> window with the path to it.
>>
>> You'll see there's an Addons folder in there. Put the addon folder
>> ("TCPServer_For_Softimage") inside the Addons folder, then restart
>> Softimage.
>>
>> Reading your question again, you'll need to do a lot of work if you want
>> to stream geometry or something like that. With this server you can send
>> scripts or one-liners to Softimage to execute, which can be pretty useful
>> nonetheless.
>>
>> If as you say you're not a programmer, what do you wanna do? Because
>> you're gonna need to write code to get anywhere practical. :/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:45 PM, francisco criado
>> <malcriad...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>> thanks for the response, couldn´t find any addon in there, just a python
>>> script that i´m trying to figure out. Maybe someone has this addon backuped?
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Francisco.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/11/28 Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> This works:
>>>> https://github.com/KelSolaar/TCPServer_For_Softimage
>>>>
>>>> If you're using Softimage *in Linux*, try my fork:
>>>> https://github.com/darkvertex/TCPServer_For_Softimage
>>>> I modified the original to be Python-2.5-friendly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:43 PM, francisco criado <
>>>> malcriad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, just wondering if there is a simple way to get udp data into
>>>>> softimage. I've been reading this;
>>>>>
>>>>> http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/sdkdocs/examples/Addons/XSIServer/netview_xsiserver.htm
>>>>> but since i'm not a programmer, i have no idea where to start :s
>>>>> Maybe there is an addon or plugin already done that would let connect
>>>>> incoming data to a primitive?
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Francisco.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
