Wish: PD Viewer comparing

Deprecated Krakatoa 1.5 Beta Discussion
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Two wishes here,

First, allow more than one PD Viewer window. This would let me compare say, the average density of two different PRT Loaders, or allow me to compare frame 20 to frame 40.

Second, pending first wish being implemented, allow evaluation at different modifier stack levels. So we could compare the input of a KCM with the output. Behind the scenes, I assume this would involve re-evaluating the object with modifiers above the sampling level turned off, then turning them back on. Not sure exactly, but it wouldn’t be masked or blended or anything.

  • Chad

PS. The filter dialog is neat. Would be cool if you could build KCM’s with it. Certainly seems like less clicking, and pretty easy to grasp.

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That is a good suggestion too IMO, if/until then you could:

You can simply open the file Krakatoa_ParticleDataViewer.ms and comment out the 9th line:

--try(destroyDialog Krakatoa_ParticleDataViewer_Rollout )catch()

EDIT: haha not sure what I was thinking with what I had written before, I know better…

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I would be very surprised if that worked…

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LOL, well I guess it only kind of works :blush: So open one instance, populate it, evaluate the script, open another instance, and populate it. How’s that for a workaround :laughing:

Some Bobo magic could make it work right :ugeek:

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FYI, I made certain changes to the PDV for the next Beta to allow multiple instances to open and co-exist.

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You da’ Man!