How to make a plugin do something every frame?

By Clavery · 2009-11-25

Description

ive been trying to make a tool for an animation of mine where i dont want to think about orienting my ship as i drag it around... blah blah blah

...long story short i want to make a custom plugin (modifier, helper, utility,?idontknow) that can run a function every frame, or have an 'instance' of the animation on another object.

what i need is to put a dummy where my ship is going to be 5 frames in the future, i would like to just say 'd.pos =at time (currentTime +5) ship.pos' but i havent found a way to make a dummy automatically do this every frame, or every tick. is there some event handler i can use? should i make it a plugin, a helper, a modifier? what?

if anyone knows where i should look to find out this stuff thats all i need. sometimes i just cant find the answers in the help menu. so sorry if this is a common question.

Comments (3)

Anubis · 2009-11-25

try wiring as well

Clavery · 2009-11-25

hey thanks guys for the replies... but i think i found another way.

i looked a little longer at the scripted plugin helper section and they have this event called 'getDisplayMesh' i originally thought this happened once, but it seems that it happens every rendered frame for the active viewport.

i know its a kinda jirry rig, but it works pretty well. ill take a look at that time callback thingy, see if its better optimized for this kinda thing.

i sware everytime i post a question here i find an answer like five minutes afterwards. thanks again for the replies.

kilad · 2009-11-25

registerTimeCallback is what you want