Switching sop objects on a set date - solved

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Hi,
I want to trigger a switch in sops/shapes on a date.
I have the clock going out to a dat and then use a series of select dats to get each value to show a clock (goes off to a text top).
I want to use the ‘day’ value and the expression ‘if($V>24,1,0)’ to drive the switch. That works as far as dats go (e.g. a data switche) but I can’t work out how to get the trigger value back across to a sop switch.

Help please. I’ll post what I have so far later today.

Thanks,
Ian

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It’s ok. Stand down. I figured it out.

I was able to use a ‘DATto’ to get the data (i.e. day) into a chop. Then I used an ‘expression’ ;

‘if($V>21,1,0)’, where ‘21’ is the day before the trigger date to get the values 1 and 0 and

then used these values on a ‘Switch’ sop.

Cheers,
Ian

Cheers,
Ian

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Hi,
here it is. On the east coast of Australia, the Mayan calendar ‘date and time of oblivion’ was 22:11pm on 21/12/2012. So I wired it up to switch from a textured sphere representing the earth to the provided ‘sopexploder’. I hope this helps someone who is trying to do a NYE count down. The projection of this onto a large structure went very well. You’ll notice that I also used the clock as a texture to display the current time.

A couple of things I’d still like to learn are;

  1. How to align the text from the two rows of a dat horizontally to have the headings display correctly above the figures.
  2. How to pause a branch of nodes so that they only start running with the switch sop activates them.

Ian
xplode_sphere.12.toe (9.4 KB)

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hahaha! Are you based in Oz? (I’m in Hobart).

Rod

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Hi,
yep. Up in Newcastle NSW. Just starting out with this program but it seems to have potential. Hopefully physics will be added.

Merry Christmas,
Ian

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Ian, Thank you! This will come in handy for New Years :slight_smile: