Plea to script coders ...

marble

I don't have a clue about script coding so I am asking sincerely if anyone would fancy writing a script to turn off "Visibility in Simulation" for everything except selected items. I want to use dForce in my scenes which tend to have lots of figures and props and it is so very tedious going through the whole scene tree and manually switching off that visibility setting. Otherwise the simulation takes a long, long time so it is tedious if I don't switch them off too. How hard could it be? Surely not much of a challenge to the skills available here?

mCasual

i have a script to hide unhide selected items in a scene

i will see if i can change the standard hide for the 'visibility in simulation' property

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

i only played once with dForce so i have to see what this does

my dForce experiment was this

https://www.deviantart.com/mcasual/art/it-grows-on-you-tight-dress-DForce-in-Daz-Studio-759260015

...

yes it works fine, took about 10 minutes to adapt

i will post it in a few minutes at

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjsimviz

 

marble

mCasual said:

i have a script to hide unhide selected items in a scene

i will see if i can change the standard hide for the 'visibility in simulation' property

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

i only played once with dForce so i have to see what this does

my dForce experiment was this

https://www.deviantart.com/mcasual/art/it-grows-on-you-tight-dress-DForce-in-Daz-Studio-759260015

 

Thanks - I had already downloaded your script - which I'm sure will be useful anyway but for this purpose we just need the visible in simulation property switched. I'm also quite new to dForce which seems a little more stable in the new DAZ Studio beta.

Much appreciated if you can work some magic with your script. :)

mCasual

it will be here in 10 minutes

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjsimviz

mCasual

it's ready

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjsimviz

marble

mCasual said:

it's ready

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjsimviz

Fantastic! Thanks so much. I'll be downloading it shortly but I'm in the middle of a slow render so testing might have to wait a while.

Richard Haseltine

Moved to Daz Studio Discussion (though it could also have gone in Product Suggestions) as it is a request for, not an offer of, a freebie.

JonnyRay

Thank you, mCasual! This will be a lot easier than what I used to do ... Isolate the figure and clothing in an empty scene, run the simulation, save as scene subset, then merge it into my main scene.

marble

JonnyRay said:

Thank you, mCasual! This will be a lot easier than what I used to do ... Isolate the figure and clothing in an empty scene, run the simulation, save as scene subset, then merge it into my main scene.

I also started out doing that but it was also such a time hog.  There are so many things about this hobby that involve tedious tasks or sitting around waiting that I wonder I have the patience for it. This and other scripts make those tasks a little more bearable.

mindsong

heh, a *lot* more bearable!

(remember to donate every-so-often. Buy our heros a beer!)

and thanks for the update mr. casual!

cheers,

--ms

Silver Dolphin

Thank you this is a very useful script.