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jamesVoodooMotion
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August 10, 2021
Question

Disable the target on a PF_ADD_POINT UI parameter

  • August 10, 2021
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Hi, is it possible to have a 2D [X,Y] UI input without the target?

I'm making a plugin that needs a 2 dimensional input, but the target slides around when the user adjusts the values, which is very distracting.  I grouping 2 inputs inside a topic, or using a 3D point works but both are undesirable.  Is there simply a flag that can be set to disable the target?  Sorry if this is such a silly question, I have looked but can't find anything obvious.  Thanks in advance 🙂

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James Whiffin
James Whiffin
Brainiac
August 11, 2021

To my knowledge it's not possible. The really roundabout way would be to implement your own arb param that has the same behaviour but doesn't draw the composition target. I settled for having an X and Y slider :"(

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jamesVoodooMotionAuthor
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August 11, 2021

Thanks James, hope you're well mate.  I'll look into that but might settle for X and Y sliders, or use a 3D Point and ignore the Z.  Takes me a while to get back into the SDK zone after months of animation projects.  Must remember to annotate my code more!  All the best, and thanks again 🙂

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jamesVoodooMotionAuthor
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August 21, 2021

The AESDK doesn't have any way to transform in 3d unfortunately, I'd go with openGL for that since there's a template (though it's now deprecated on OSX). There's also a newer openCL/metal template but you'd need to convert it from compute to a render pipeline. 

 

Will eventually get around to updating SS2! Aescripts can be lucrative depending on how popular the tool is. Maintaining them also requires a fair amount of time.


Thanks that's worth knowing 🙂 Recent bedtime stories have been C++ tutorials, still a lot of fundamental things that'll help.  Started programming on a 64K Atari back in the 80s, then QBASIC, QPascal and C++ in 90s... a lot has changed hahaha.  I'm using Visual Studio on PC, wasn't aware OSX had issues with openGL.

 

I'd love to develop plugins as a passive income, but experience tells me the time and effort makes it more of a fulltime endeavour.  Please contact me anytime if you'd like to pick each other's brains 🙂

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