is this all there is ion the docs about references?
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguid...

I use references a bunch but i start to falter when i want to use them more
than a couple of times.

i would love it if i could find a way wholesale change the context of
everything within a compound.
so that all self.* attributes update to the new referenced context

as it stands i have to seriously reengineer my compounds if i want to use
them outside their original context.

another oddity is references do not respect pass through nodes.
curious if thats an intended limitation?

It would be great to be able to take a functioning compound from one
polymesh,
copy it to something else,
and have it continue act identically by assigning its original context with
a reference to the original polymesh.

ie: internal self.* would be assessed relative to the compounds reference
context.

once these changes need to be propogated several compounds deep with other
peoples published compounds, things get far more squirrely.

i cant see the value of the exposed "reference" when compared to in_name?
is there any good documentation in this area?

This is actually my second biggest gripe with Softimage at the moment -
having to make people add references twice/whatever just makes things feel
soooo sloppy when you're making compounds! Using a GetData node as Gray
mentioned covered a lot of cases, but there's enough exceptions to make it
painful nevertheless (usually with instancing from groups, sharing fcurve
profiles and a couple of other things I forget...).

On 12 June 2012 23:01, Sam Cuttriss <tea...@gmail.com> wrote:

second...?
do share

Ah, yeah. Python 2.6 on Linux, forgot to add that. :)

On 12 June 2012 23:51, Sam Cuttriss <tea...@gmail.com> wrote: