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BIN Mesh Loader
The BIN loader node has the following attributes:
- BIN Mesh Sequence: path to a file in the BIN sequence to use.
- Format: allows you to select the naming convention for the file sequence.
- Padding size: the number of digits used for the frame number in the file names. The plug-in tries to autodetect the padding and format settings when you create the node.
- Start: the frame number from which the animation starts.
- Offset: this value allows you to offset the sequence relative to the current time.
- Stop: the frame number at which the animation ends.
- Pre Behavior: controls the behavior of the mesh when the sequence frame is before the Start of the animation. Possible values are:
- Drop - the mesh doesn't appear at all.
- Hold - the Start frame will be used to represent every frame before Start
- Loop - when reaching a frame number below Start, the mesh will start over looping from the End frame.
- Post Behavior: controls the behavior of the mesh when the sequence frame is after the End of the animation.
- Motion Blur Strength: can be used to control the amount of motion blur, in case the simulation was performed at the different scene or time scale.
- Smooth Normals: BIN files do not contain normals, so this setting controls how the normals are generated: smooth or faceted.
- Smooth Angle: when smoothing is on, this represents the maximum angle at which two faces are considered smooth. If the angle between two faces is larger than the limit, a hard edge is used between them.
- Time: this attribute is used to determine which frame to load from disk. When the node is created, it is connected to Maya's default time source. It can be reconnected or keyed to decouple the time used by the loader from the current frame.
- Display Mode: controls how the mesh is shown in the viewport. Mesh mode displays the full mesh, while Point Cloud mode displays only the vertices as points. The Point Cloud mode is faster and uses less memory, so it's recommended for heavy meshes.
- Display LOD: when the object uses the Point Cloud display mode, this attribute controls the amount of vertices to use in the viewport.
As with the other primitives, materials can be applied by drag and dropping from MEdit or by using the assign to selection button.