<div dir="auto">Would it be possible to create an Alias node which copied its node type from the node referenced in it’s USE field? What I’m thinking of is making rapid changes between types in an authoring tool. I can already accomplish it in a text editor.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe I need to get more familiar with authoring tools?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joe,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Wouldn’t it be easiest to turn on of off transparency in the Material nodes?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can do this, but it seems very easy? Am I missing something?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh, you want to change DEF/USE=SkeletonColor Color nodes to ColorRGBA? I can do that!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anything else?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" target="_blank">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Just how many switches or switch states do you want? You want to turn off Joint, segment and site geometry? Do you want the switch nodes nested? Something fine grained?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If Joints can have Switch or Grouping children, things might be easier! But switching off a DEF geometry is probably easy enough.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM Joe D Williams <<a href="mailto:joedwil@earthlink.net" target="_blank">joedwil@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fine, I want to continue working on this model.</p>
<p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Now. please turn off and on different parts on main character.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" target="_blank">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>><br>Sent: May 7, 2025 12:59 AM<br>To: Joe D Williams <<a href="mailto:joedwil@earthlink.net" target="_blank">joedwil@earthlink.net</a>><br>Cc: <<a href="mailto:hanim@web3d.org" target="_blank">hanim@web3d.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: Hide Jin “mini-me”</p>
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<div>This is with my Demo5, so there's some skin there.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I believe I used it for Jin FACS to switch between inlines.</div>
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<div dir="auto">What I will do is implement it, if you send a recent Jin. No editing effort on your part.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The Switch node selects one of its children nodes to be visible. The whichChoice SFInt32 field can be set or changed to select a child to be visible and others not. -1 means none visible, if you have a group node (mini-me) you want invisible, with DEFs, you can put that at choice 0 (first node), and the humanoid (Jin) at choice 1 (second node), then change the whichChoice node to 1 to select the humanoid.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Note that ROUTEs are not affected by Switch, but hidden nodes won’t be animated, or at least not visibly animated.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Hope that helps! The reason I chose Switch was because I wanted to handle lots of types of geometry, like Text, Curves, etc.</div>
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<p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1;font-family:arial,sans-serif">well yes the way it is done allows the mini to show but you better test,</p>
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