add driven value nodes ?

[Alessandro Padovani]

daz studio 4.21.0.5, blender 3.4.1, diffeomorphic 1.7.0.1518

In the HD section there’s tools to interface with the Xin HD addon that is recently updated and improved in #1399. As it is now we have to load the maps then add the driven nodes and connect them by hand. I am wondering if it is possible to connect the driven nodes automatically, and also to include this step in the map tool so that when we load the maps they are already connected with the driven nodes.

Since the driven nodes and the maps have the same name it should be possible to match them by name.

For example the result of “load normal maps“ for the HD expressions would be as below, where the driven nodes are already connected. This would avoid the user to connect by hand all the driven nodes.

Please let us know, if this is not possible or hard to implement then I’ll close as “wontfix“.

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[Thomas Larsson]

There are three buttons in the HD morphs panel that are supposed to do that, However, I have never really used them and there were some bugs, e.g. the mix factor was not driven when I tried it. Something must have changed since I first wrote the code, but it should work now. Even with the fix there are some glitches, e.g. only one tile can be imported at a time.

These tools are supposedly described in https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Advanced/HD Meshes, but I have never come around to write it down. I will try to do it soon, but I will be on a vacation next week so it might take a while.

[Alessandro Padovani]

Commit 568a153 works great, thank you for the nice improvement and the fast fix.

Have a nice vacation and a happy Easter.

[Xin]

There are operators that do this in the hd addon since a few versions ago.