[Fabio Apelbaum]

Thank you so much for all! I ended up using your method which gives me the same level of control!

One quick question, I still have the condition to choose which list to use… and that is connected to a slider that I placed in my HUD… what I would like to do is to put some reference in the HUD, so when I move the slider it tells me which list is using assuming I name each least… is that possible?

Here is what the xpresso turned out to be:

Once again! thank you!

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Yes, I had that happening to me in one of my tests… But remember that the ideal scenario, I will like to have 5 presets… so, that is why I was using an equal node with a constant to match the switch input.

Do you think this has a solution? or do I need to think from scratch on a different way to structure this? I just cant believe it is so difficult to get the Active property to update…. Thats why I wonder if there might be a conflict between the xgroups….

[Fabio Apelbaum]

sounds good, to give you a clear direction of what I am trying to attempt is similar to this couple frames:

If you look at this two images, the lights in the background will be switching into different combinations…. my idea is to create 5 different presets that I can animate with ease. Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks,,
Fabio

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Hi there, thank you again for the help, I tried unpacking the xgroups and connecting the Equal Output to the Material On input, but nothing happens….

In the second sample I sent you, the setup is a bit different, I imported the xgroups as nodes to get access to the ‘Active’ preperty but that did not work as well…

Any other suggestions?

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Hi There! Thank you so much for the help!! Everything other than the results nodes are in Real, here is a similar test I was working on, but instead of using the enabled. I’m using the Active which from the explanation in the help, Active should be recognized by ether 1 or True. Nevertheless, the problem persists…. My knowledge of xpresso is very limited and I might be doing something wrong on how I am structuring this to get the results I want… could it be that there is a conflict between the two xgroups? Maybe there is a different approach to the same result?

Attached is my latest test:
12599_lightmixtest002.c4d.zip

Thank you once again for the help!

Fabio

[Fabio Apelbaum]

To answer my own question, I found out that by doing:
dayLayer.effect(“ADBE Checkbox Control”)(“ADBE Checkbox Control-0001”).setValue(false)

will turn it off in case someone else would like to know.

Thanks!

[Fabio Apelbaum]

thanks!!! thats awesome!

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Thanks Dan as always for your recommendations!

Take care,

Fabio

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Thanks Xavier, as always!

I have so many text edit fields that I was hoping there was any sort of code that would just refresh them or restart the UI. Nevertheless, your recommendation certainly works!

Take care,

Fabio

[Fabio Apelbaum]

Thank you Dan, it was excelent, just finished reading and it has been very useful,

Let me ask you a question, as I mentioned yesterday, Im trying to use a spreadsheet to change text layers, for that reason, I am trying to access the namespaces such as Data ss:Type=’String’>original text /Data and replace my text layer with whatever is written in this namespace. Is there an easy way to access all of these?

Please find some of the code I have so far, I included the xml inside my code just to test it, later I will write my script to gather the XML info from an XML Excel file.