I'm planning on using this in transfer of broad animator controls to individual animator controls and I think I would need anim curves which could be different numbers for different parts. Suppose we want a multi-dimensional stored in a 2D array and multi dimensional array could have different number of columns per row here are some ideas to do that in MEL for Maya.
/**result recover elements at specified index from $array
@result subset of $array for given $index
@param int $index index we wish to recover elements
@param float $array[] list of all possible elements
@param int $num[] number of elements per each row, since it may be different
@param int $sum[] cummulative sum of elements per each row it helps speed up calculation
*/
global proc float[] na_get2DArrayDiffSize(int $index, float $array[], int $num[], int $sum[] )
{
float $result[] = {};
//assert data okay to use
na_get2DArrayDiffSize_assert($index,$array,$num,$sum);
int $i = 0;
for($j=0; $j < $num[$index]; $j++)
{
//use the cumulative sum and the number for a given row to figure out recovered element
$i = $sum[$index] - ( $num[$index] - $j );
$result[size($result)] = $array[ $i ];
}
return $result;
}
/**
*/
global proc
na_get2DArrayDiffSize_assert(int $index, float $array[], int $num[], int $sum[])
{
if($index < 0){ error("error expecting non-negative index"); }
if(size($array) == 0){ error("error expecting an array with elements"); }
if($index >= size($array) ){ error("error expecting smaller index"); }
if( size($num) == 0 ){ error("error some number of elements per row"); }
if( size($num) != size($sum) ){error("error expecting sum and num same length");}
if( $num[$index] <= 0 ){error("error expecting number of elements > 0");}
if( $sum[$index] <= 0 ){error("error expecting sum of elements > 0");}
}
/**
*/
global proc
na_get2DArrayDiffSize_unitTest()
{
float $array[] = {1,2,1,4,5,6};
int $num[] = {3,1,2};
int $sum[]= {3,4,6};
print( na_get2DArrayDiffSize(0,$array,$num,$sum) );
print("\n");
print( na_get2DArrayDiffSize(1,$array,$num,$sum) );
print("\n");
print( na_get2DArrayDiffSize(2,$array,$num,$sum) );
print("\n");
print( na_get2DArrayDiffSize(5,$array,$num,$sum) );
print("\n");
/*
na_get2DArrayDiffSize_unitTest();
1
2
1
4
5
6
// Error: error expecting number of elements > 0 //
*/
}
Regards,
Nate
