Programming and animation

FbxObject – Storing and retrieving a data

Writing and reading in fbx format has its own characteristics, I would like to briefly talk about it.
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STL Vector & Map element removing

There is a small feature to be borne in mind when you remove an element in the vector and map.
Suppose there is such a situation, we start to cycle through the elements by iterator, and some of the criteria if the item is not suitable, it should be removed.
For a vector it will be as follows:

For a map it will be as follows:

How to: draw scene with camera background in a FBView

This is the forum question from Autodesk Area, so I will add it to the tips for OpenReality SDK:

You can operate with camera background by using property BackGroundColor.

So to get color at current frame:

FBColor color = lCamera.BackGroundColor;
Now we have to set clear color using OpenGL command:

glClearColor( color[0], color[1], color[2], color[3] );

FBString, be careful

When working with FBString revealed one feature – the constructor does not initialize the string memory. Ie if you do not assign a variable value and want to use it, you get an error. While the familiar course when the string class assign empty string value by default in constructor, but in the case of FBString this is empty pointer.

Math library for developers

In the Open Reality SDK there is small set of functions for working with vectors, matrices and quaternions. Propose to gather some convenient common library.

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Control file version – Tortoise svn

I would like to talk about versioning using Tortise SVN. Very convenient and easy-to-use program. For me to become a substitute for the creation of multiple copies of the file for making changes. I suggest working with code and scripts.

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Renaming OpenReality menu

I was very interested in the plug of NeoReel. As we all know, created tools are placed in a separate paragraph the main menu, Open Reality, but NeoReel renaming the item. I decided to do the same trick and succeeded.

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Dependency on MSVCR90.dll in VS 2008

Encountered a problem when working with Visual Studio 2008 that I have collected a library does not run on another computer. Not long thinking check list of dependent libraries within my own and found there MSVCR90.dll. In general, is that without a distribution does not start.

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