hi Thiago,
I have a question related to your plugin, I’m actually working on a PPG plugin with a listbox
but I dont like it’s default colors, I have noticed that in your video the listbox is light grey and the selection is orange, would you share how to do this?

Thanks
A.

hey Ahmidou,

The color isn’t from my PPG, it’s the Windows color scheme that I’ve changed.
I’ve changed the “Selected Items” option in the windows appearance tab (display properties).
It’s the color that XSI uses for textboxes.

I would love to be able to customize colors in XSI too!… :|

Hey thiago,

Great tool you wrote there.  I really like the poor man’s grease pencil tool in Maya, and wanted to give you a bit of feedback.

The tool in Maya keeps each frame visible until the next one. In yours you have to select how many frames you want to hold in the setup option, which is a bit slow on the workflow.

The Maya tool lets you quickly retime the keys, I know you said you were working on a copy option, so you can copy a frame to another one on the timeline.

The undo doesnt seem to work on your tool, you need to select curves and hit delete.

But I love the brush tool to quickly reshape the curves, thats ace.

Just a few observations. I hope you ll continue to refine this tool. Keep up the good work.

Cheers.

Hey Ooops, thanks for your feedback.

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The tool in Maya keeps each frame visible until the next one. In yours you have to select how many frames you want to hold in the setup option, which is a bit slow on the workflow.

hmm well not really.. if you turn on “view all” in the visibility drop-down, you’ll see all curves but the previews curve will be active until the next one show up.
The default “view current” will show the curve just in the frame that it was drawn, and will make 2 previous frame ghosting with itself + other curves.
This is not exactly what you need I guess… But I understand your need, I will add your suggestion to my list for the next version! :)

[quote=Ooops;4354]
The Maya tool lets you quickly retime the keys, I know you said you were working on a copy option, so you can copy a frame to another one on the timeline.

Yes this is going to be improved with a couple of time ctrl I’m doing…

[quote=Ooops;4354]
The undo doesnt seem to work on your tool, you need to select curves and hit delete.

Thats more XSI problem than mine… :|
I spent days trying to figure out ways to solve this but I just gave up.
Commands in XSI aren’t “undone” at once on v6.5. This is already reported as a broken feature if I can recall.

hmm well not really.. if you turn on “view all” in the visibility drop-down, you’ll see all curves but the previews curve will be active until the next one show up.
The default “view current” will show the curve just in the frame that it was drawn, and will make 2 previous frame ghosting with itself + other curves.

[quote=Ooops;4405]Hey thiago, what I meant was that in the “view current” like you said, it doesnt show the curves for all frames, so when you play back the animation it flickers.  Was just a minor thing really.

Anyway, glad you still working on it. Looking forward to it.

Cheers.

yeah I understand… I’m going to improve that for the next update ;)
Right now I’m trying to figure out a geoshader to make this curves renderable.

Thank you Thiago! Finally had chance to try it out. This is awesome, most essential tool. I was thinking something like Annotation pro but frame by frame inside xsi is so much more. I kiss the ground you walk on, thumbnailing in XSI.

[quote=nRatio;4486]Thank you Thiago! Finally had chance to try it out. This is awesome, most essential tool. I was thinking something like Annotation pro but frame by frame inside xsi is so much more. I kiss the ground you walk on, thumbnailing in XSI.

Thanks! :)
I’m glad you find it useful!

[QUOTE=thiago;4537]Thanks! :)
I’m glad you find it useful!

Very, only it is not fully operational in linux. Won’t stay in Sketch mode, needs to hit the button every frame, can’t pick a camera. It really is sad, but script editor yels line after line errors. I’m using the same workgroup in windows and it is ok. If you have any interest I made notes what was done.

Wow! the tools look really cool :)

Thanks you Thiago! :)