current camera scripting line

[Maximus]

Hey guys, i need help with a stupid thing!
i've created a button to swtich on and off the backface cull on camera, problem is it reads only the camera name so if i have multiple cameras with different names it doesnt work.
The camera must have the name "Camera" to work. I'd like it to work with other names too, just based on the active camera i'm using.

I've used this JScript:

SetValue "Camera.camdisp.culbackface", True

i was wondering if there was a method to set the script to read the current active camera or something, any ideas?

thanks a lot!

Max

[bottleofram]

Hi Max

I was looking into something similar myself recently and i (shamelessly) used Stefan Kubicek's QMenu to figure out how you get the active camera. Heres his code adjusted for your case:

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xsi = Application

oVM = xsi.Desktop.ActiveLayout.Views.Find( "View Manager" )
oView = oVM.GetAttributeValue("focusedviewport")
viewIndices = dict (A = 0, B = 1, C = 2, D = 3)
oCam = xsi.GetViewCamera(viewIndices[oView])

xsi.SetValue(oCam.FullName + ".camdisp.culbackface", True, "")

Python, btw

[myara]

You can use the GetFocusedViewport command.

In JScript:

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var vw = GetFocusedViewport()
switch(vw){
   case "A": var mCamera = GetViewCamera(0);break;
   case "B": var mCamera = GetViewCamera(1);break;
   case "C": var mCamera = GetViewCamera(2);break;
   case "D": var mCamera = GetViewCamera(3);break;
}
ToggleValue("culbackface", mCamera + ".camdisp")

Since JScript doesn't have a dictionary like Python (not that I'm aware) I use switch to convert the GetFocusedViewport result to indices.

And used ToggleValue command to toggle it ON / OFF with one button.