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Topic - Viewport Shade Type Cycler

atanguay

21 posts Hey all...I wrote a VERY simple viewport shading type cycler today that I thought I'd share in case someone could use it or improve it. It runs through wireframe, shaded, gooch (or the wax shader I substituted), and reflection mapped.

I've mapped this to the Zero on my keypad so that I can quickly zip through these modes. Here is the code:

#!perl #ANDYs SHADING MODE CYCLER #v0.1 #This script allows me to cycle through the shading modes #available in a viewport...wire, shaded, gooch, and reflection my $shade = lxq("query view3dservice view.shade ? first"); if($shade == 0) { lxout("Shading Type is 0 or wire"); lx("viewport.3dView shade:shade"); } if($shade == 3) { lxout("Shading Type is 3 or smooth shaded"); lx("view3d.shadingStyle shd1"); } if($shade == 7) { lxout("Shading Type is 7 or gooch shaded"); lx("viewport.3dView shade:shd3"); } if($shade == 9) { lxout("Shading Type is 9 or reflection"); lx("viewport.3dView shade:wire"); }

I couldn't find a Case statement in Perl...I'm thinking there still might not be one. So I did it this way. I know it's dirty and terrible, but for now it works. If someone has a better way to do it, I am completely listening.

Nice. That saves one key on my shortcut list. Thanks!

9/23/2009 - 4:52 PM

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David Vasquez

Mountain View, California
406 posts

Andy, thanks for sharing your script.

Here's the equivalent script in Python:


#python
#CycleShadeMode.py

def WireToSmoothShaded():
    lx.out("Wire to Smooth Shaded.")
    lx.eval("view3d.shadingStyle shade")

def SmoothShadedToGooch():
    lx.out("Smooth Shaded to Gooch.")
    lx.eval("view3d.shadingStyle shd1")

def GoochToReflection():
    lx.out("Gooch to Reflection.")
    lx.eval("view3d.shadingStyle shd3")

def ReflectionToWire():
    lx.out("Reflection to Wire.")
    lx.eval("view3d.shadingStyle wire")

def ToWire():
    lx.out("Wire.")
    lx.eval("view3d.shadingStyle wire")

cycles = {
    0: WireToSmoothShaded,
    3: SmoothShadedToGooch,
    7: GoochToReflection,
    9: ReflectionToWire
    }

mode = lx.eval("query view3dservice view.shade ? first")

cycles.get (mode, ToWire)()

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9/23/2009 - 6:09 PM

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Gim Dong joo

South Korea
171 posts Hi,

Here is another script.
You can easily edit the shading type cycle.

#python shade = ('wire', 'sket', 'vmap', 'shade', 'tex', 'texmode', 'advgl', 'shd1', 'shd2', 'shd3') cycle = (0, 3, 7, 9) curr = shade.index(lx.eval('view3d.shadingStyle ?')) if curr in cycle: next = cycle[(cycle.index(curr) + 1) % len(cycle)] else: next = cycle[0] lx.out('%s to %s' %(shade[curr], shade[next])) lx.eval('view3d.shadingStyle %s' %next)