Help writing a very simple DAZ Script

mwasielewski1990

Hello everybody!

I'm in need of making a very simple script for DAZ. I tried to look up for stuff in the API documentation center but... darn the thing is huge and a bit confusing 

I need to make something like this:

1) Extract the X and Z coordinates from the active camera

2) Paste them into Ground Origin X and Ground Origin Z respectively (in the Iray Enviroment -> Ground tab)

Is something like this possible?

chris-2599934

It should be possible, but I don't see what it would achieve - the Ground X & Z coords don't really do anything.

mwasielewski1990

chris-2599934 said:

It should be possible, but I don't see what it would achieve - the Ground X & Z coords don't really do anything.

Yes, they do :)

A little help on where to look in the documentation would be awesome ^^

ebergerly

Since the camera is a node, I suspect step 1 could be done with a getWSPos() which returns the node's/camera's world space position in vec3 format. Here's the link to the node stuff:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/node_dz#a_1a6991a7f4eeb0902cf5a42045ca437e38

Also there's a sample script for aiming the camera here. Might help to get things all set up:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/core/aim_camera/start

mwasielewski1990

ebergerly said:

Since the camera is a node, I suspect step 1 could be done with a getWSPos() which returns the node's/camera's world space position in vec3 format. Here's the link to the node stuff:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/object_index/node_dz#a_1a6991a7f4eeb0902cf5a42045ca437e38

Also there's a sample script for aiming the camera here. Might help to get things all set up:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/core/aim_camera/start

Thanks... at least it's something :)

ebergerly

"Something"?? It should get you to where you want to go, unless you've never written a script before and want someone to do it for you.