Part of the USB mans rig requirement was to contain a mask visor that has a dot matrix display (very similar to the Daft Punk mask). This is relatively simple to set-up using a glow attribute, but I want it to scroll from right to left/left to right up and down etc. I would also like to be able to alter the speed at which it scrolls.
To do this i'll have to create a MEL GUI window with some sort of means for selecting the direction and an input box that allows the animator to control its rate by inputting a number.
Early thoughts are, in order to scroll from left to right the script will have to get the visibility attribute (on or off) for the dot immediately to its left, store that in a variable and then set that attribute on the visibility on the adjacent dot on a specified number of frames later. To scroll down the visibility information will come from above, to scroll up, the visibility will come from below and to scroll left from the right.
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