XPresso Question – Degree of Rotation Display

[Brian Jones]

that was just a quick test and it uses an absolute reference to the oil tank.
In that example if you open the xpresso itself, the first node (on the left) is an Absolute Reference to the Oil Tank. Which just means you can put the xpresso tag on any object (even a null) in the scene and it will always target the oil tank for it’s Rotation.H. If you click on that node you can change Reference Mode from Absolute Reference to Use Start Position – leave Start Position as This object and Start Distance and History Depth at 1. Now whichever object you put the xpresso tag on will be the object who’s rotation shows up in the MoText.

Or

you can open the xpresso and drag your new object into the xpresso box and it makes an absolute reference to the object, create an output port to export a value into the rest of the xpresso. (click on the red rectangle and choose Coordinate/Rotation/Rotation.H to copy what was used with the oil tank)

Or

you can open the xpresso and drag a new object on the Oil Tank node (on the darkest part not the borders i.e. where the name is) and it will change now be a node which points to the new object (the name will change) and it will still output Rotation.H like it was set to do with the oil tank.

[Arturo Lazcano]

Thank you very much Brian, you’re my new god : )