<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Clemens Barth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barth@root-1.de" target="_blank">barth@root-1.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">You mean into this file dialog? Oh, no ... the reason is the
following: When<br>
a structure is loaded, only the first frame is visible. Sometimes,
xyz files may <br>
contain more than >1000 frames, which you sometimes don't want to
see. <br>
So, this is why there is a 'skip frames' option. Furthermore, there
is the option to<br>
put other frames in between two frames to smoothen the movements
(frame/key).<br>
After having chosen the 2 prefs values, you load the frames, which
may take some <br>
time.<br>
<br>
Finding out the best parameters is just done by try/error in the
scene (playing around): <br>
you try out one set of parameters and if this is not good, you
delete the keys, change the <br>
parameters and restart. This is quite convenient and easy to do.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Perhaps you should use the same strategy I used in my mocap tools. I made two mocap importers (Acclaim and C3D) and then made a third addon which is a 3D View panel that uses these importers (CMU Mocap Library Browser, cmu_mocap_browser).<br>
<br>Both importers have a frame_skip parameter, but the panel replicates this parameter for convenience.<br><br>But my browser addon is still in contrib, so perhaps it is better not to use it as reference, I don't know.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Daniel<br>