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Possible to Expose Blop Internals?

Is it possible to expose in the param rollout internal dependencies?

For instance if I have a geometry/object node and a float value I would like to see the values in the Blop param rollout.

Dreaming, or possible, or possibly dreaming? More trouble than it is worth? Not now maybe later? It is already there stupid, just look harder :blush:

Thoughts?

In that case I would typically make the BLOP have an input that I fed the geometry into and then expose the top-level InputGeometry node as usual.

I would consider this semi-broken.
Right now, the Exposure does not respect newly added BLOPs that have exposed controls inside.
It works if you add a BLOP, go into it and select Expose>UPDATE Exposed Inputs from the menu, but it does not do it automatically when dropped, or if you are at a higher level.
The UPDATE Exposure function should scan the flow recursively for BLOPs and expose their inputs if flagged as Exposed.

I will see if I can fix this today.
Exposing the controls in the Editor itself might be a good idea, but I am not sure I want to attack it at this point.
Possibly in the future.
After all, if it is in the Modify Panel, it should be good enough…

ah ok, I see, thanks for the explanation(s)!

Yes, I was trying to create it all in one go and the exposure wasn’t exposing anything, after saving it first and it works fine. :slight_smile:

Exposed params are perfectly awesome in the modify panel, even better than in the actual magMod editor Blop param.

Ok, try the attached update and see if you can break it! :slight_smile:
It should handle nested BLOPs of any depth and their exposed input nodes.
Krakatoa_MagmaFlow_20111205.zip (60.1 KB)

Sweet :ugeek:

It works with a pair of Blops in a Blop right off the bat! :slight_smile:

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