SundancePioneer

Dear Core4D brains, i am currently trying to build a "relative" xpresso rig, that basically is supposed to do the following: 1. Find the first material tag on the Object that the xpresso tag is attached to (seems to work in my current rig) 2. Find the Material that is used/referenced in the material tag 3. Find the Bitmap shader in the color/diffuse channel of the material 4. Get the Filename from the Bitmap shader (to do various things with it) I am trying to make this whole setup relative, so that when i duplicate the entire group (Extrude with one child object) - it will find the first Material applied to that new duplicate, rather than referencing the material from the first group. I am trying to use the Hierarchy node to achieve this, but something seems to be missing, since it's not fully working when duplicated. Also, i can't figure out how to get the 3rd step to work - i can't seem to get the Bitmap shader relatively to the Material that was found... All i get is the "Texture" Output port, but it doesn't seem to get me anywhere.. Am i trying to do something that is not possible with Xpresso or requires Python? I have attached my reduced setup of this - hopefully someone can help me figure it out! Thanks in advance Best regards Sundance XPressoRig.zip

That works beautifully - i don't fully understand your setup, but i will try to figure it out!! Thank you! Also thanks @MJVfor offering your help - much appreciated.

Dear C4D People, i am currently trying to build a small rig that enables me to target a child of a null via a slider - so in other words, i want to use a float slider to only show one of the childs in the hierarchy. I have been fiddling around with the Hierarchy node and i can successfully target ALL children, however i am having a hard time finding a way to wire the selector slider to only output a specific child. I could go back to using a link list, but since i want to continue adding new elements, i would prefer a "procedural" approach.. Is this something that is only possible with Python or i am blind to a simple solution? Thanks in advance! Sundance

Thanks @jed- that helped me to finish my little setup. Seems like i need to learn a little more about Python. Thanks! 🙂

Hey there, i am trying to find a way to get the current size or bounding box of a cloner (containing various objects) to be able to drive the size of another object dynamically. I tried different setups with the Bounding Box and mograph data node, but to no avail. Is this not possible with Xpresso only? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards Sundance