If you're doing it not already, I seem to remember that baking keyframes from the end of the time range to the start is faster. Might be worth trying.

this (windows) example works (worked in Lua 5.2 - not tried in 5.4) without the intermediate file local sOut = io.popen( "dir /B " .. path .. "*.png", "r" ) local sData = sOut:read "*a" IOW the output of cmd>dir ... is delivered in the fcb:read ... call (and ...

Since the display of masking was updated/improved, you may need to use some liquid shapes and/or references to get the render-accurate mask in the workspace.

SimplSam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:22 am The other option would be to pass a filename to external app, which it populates, then read/delete the contents of that file after the call.

That's my current plan.

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While it's easy enough to pass arguments from Moho Lua to external apps/scripts, it's not as easy to get data back. I think the only way is to write the data to a file, so Lua can read it. It can be done with: function capture(cmd) local f = assert(io.popen(cmd, 'r')) local s = assert(f:read('*a'))...

Anyone have any good ideas on how know when a modeless dialog has been closed? EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out: function scriptDialog:OnOK() if (self.d == nil) then --dialog has been closed with X button end end EDIT2: This is not reliable. It only works until a GUI message or two is sent. :?

Thanks for your quick response. Damn, would've been nice if Moho could 'just' return the selected bones in order of selection. I cannot track selection of bones because the tool is just a run-immediately-on-click-tool and only used when the bone selection is already done by the user. Looks like I n...

You'd have to track these, like adding their IDs to a table, as they're selected. If your script is the one doing the selecting, that's pretty easy. If not, you'd need to devise a way to do it, like using the IsEnabled function of your script. You can track the last selected bone, and add it to the ...

This should be a reliable way to get the last selected layer in the original, saved file: function LK_ExportLayerToTodoFolder:IsEnabled(moho) if (moho.document:Path() ~= "") then self.layerID = moho.document:LayerID(moho.layer) self.docPath = moho.document:Path() end self.lastLayer = moho....

I thought of copying the contents, but I didn't know if this could occasionally be used on group layers too.

Image textures are only influenced by bone strength.

Yeah, when I was testing this, it seemed that any print function would derail the file close.
I think I only saw this when trying to close the new file, but haven't tested any further.

I didn't think about using the moho-helper-object! Nice. I did try to fix it that way for a bit, but didn't get far. Might not work in this case? I do feel you should be able to update moho.document after creating new files... I hope we can get some API updates, generating moho files is kind of an ...

It looks like this may be a somewhat similar case as modeless dialogs before the helper object, where the initial document state persists throughout the entirety of the function run. In this case, the moho object passed to the run function cannot be changed until the function is initiated/run again....