Record Formats and Marionette Objects

[Marc Powell]

Hey Folks

 

I've got a pretty big issue here...  I created a marionette object to represent the head of a cable (DMX or EtherCON).  I have a record format attached to it that uses information that is in the OIP for the object (created and filled using the script that created the object).  Another plug-in (Sam's Autoplot Truss Tape Creation Tool) needs to refer to this record, but when I have the plug in refer to the record attached to the marionette object, it only reads it as a marionette object and doesn't identify the record that is attached.  Is there some way to route around this (I tried converting the object to a group and that didn't work since the record is attached to the group and not the objects within)?  Any way to convert the marionette object to a more traditional version of a plug in?  I've got to produce quite a bit of paperwork in the next 48 hours that hinges on this record....

 

I've attached the object to this post.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Marionette Cable Heads Test.vwx

[Marissa Farrell]

If Sam's tool is looking for a specific PIO type, I don't think there's a way to trick it into recognizing a Marionette object that way. The adjustment would likely have to take place within his plug-in.

I'm not familiar enough with his tools to offer any alternatives.

[Pat Stanford]

@Sam Jones Any ideas?

[Marc Powell]

I ended up writing a script that took the center point of my marionette objects and replaced them with a symbol, attached a record format and filled that record format with the information that was contained in the marionette object.  I had a deadline and that was my fix.....

 

I do have a question, though - I tried exporting the code of the marionette object to python and importing that code as a plug-in object and it didn't even begin to work.  Is there something I'm missing here?  I thought that you could export the python code of a marionette object and use it to create a plug-in object (obviously, setting up all other plug-in information along with it).

 

I'm finding that visual scripting just makes more sense to me than Vectorscript/Python and I've got several marionette objects that I'd really like to use as just plug in's.  If I could export the script from the object and setup the plug-in parameters, it would be super helpful.

 

Thanks

[Antonio Landsberger]

Exporting Marionette networks (particularly big ones) as Python results in a convoluted mess of variables. I don't believe, that kind of code is suitable for creating plug-in objects.