animCurve node... where is it?

[yngwix]

At the bottom of this page you will see this guy connecting a sampler info to a "animation curve node" but, where is that? I just can't find it in utilities... where is it? :

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/minishading/minishading_2.asphttp://www.3dtotal.com/team/tutorials/mini...nishading\_2.asp

Thanx in advance!

[jugdish]

To create an animCurve, you can do:

createNode -name "myCurve" animCurveUU;
- in the Script Editor. There are different types, but the UU type is what I usually use in shaders... If it doesn't appear in the Hypershade, select it manually:
select "myCurve";
Then shift-select your shader, and click on the "Input and Output Connections" button...

• Matthew Durante

[yngwix]

Thank you! Thank you very much Matthew!

How should I be supposed to know that? Even though I read the node reference in the manual I did not know what to do next!

I feel so relieved now... so dumb too.

Thans again Matthew.

Now I owe you knowledge!

[jtk77]

Theres a few things in Maya thats damn amazing anyone outside of the programming staff found out about.

[k-schubert]

Looked for it as well, programmer myself, but jeeez Maya is fubar for usability. 

Why is this node not in the utilities category in the nodeeditor, why Autodesk?

Probably will code a proxy node for it in my plugin and add it together with my own nodes,
so I can use it in the node editor without Mel, just UI, like it should be.

Seriously, what does Maya have a UI for, if they are not using it...
Droping back to command line UI (what Mel is), great...

Cheers,
Kai