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Xpresso Ports on left side bar??..ugh
I trying to reverse engineer some stuff so this might be a hard question to follow, but everything from tutorials to thedocumentation has nothing about this. This being, I’ve noticed on some examples done by people for helping purposes their Xpresso layout contains ports that are along the far left skinny bar of the Xgroup window in the Editor. Basically below that little blue box in the top left of the Xgroup. Some for example are basic, and are: Start Emitting and Stop Emitting which connect to an “on/off switch” node inside the editor. Yet clicking on the blue box does not yield any of these. Some other ports are count, shot, rate, life, which then connect to the PStorm node in the Xgroup editor. Where are these do you pull then from the node itself? how? wtf? helpppp….because these ports obiviously do something, because when I deleting them the particles go haywire. I should post a pic but dont have a host
thanks dudes
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instead of opening the xpresso window just click on the xpresso tag then check out the Attribute Manager. The ports on the left side should all be there, it’s an easy way to change values without having to open the window all the time.
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Ok cool Brian,
Never really noticed those. I would always double click the Xpresso tag and quickly look at the Editor. Now let me ask this, I know you can add those ports, BUT how do you add ones which are not listed when clicking on the blue square?? Such as adding the shot or count rate from a PStorm node or even Start Emitting and Stop Emitting ports for an on/off switch node,thanks a million
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It’s just a matter of adding the right kind of port (real, integer, links etc) then renaming the port afterward so it’s obvious what it is for.
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Hi,
take a look here https://www.bonkers.de/xpa/xpressointerface.html for an explanation
Cheers
Bj -
Thanks guys,
That really helps!
jon
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