Products/Graphical/Interactor

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An Interactor is a script that animates one or more nodes of the structure. An Interactor allways operates on its assigned node and can influence children or neighbour nodes.

Note There are some predefined IG standard Interactors available. Ask your IG contact for more details.

An Interactor can be choosen at the top line by typing in the name or selecting it from the dropdown menu. An Interactor is only availabe if it was uploaded as a Script to the Creator.

Note the small arrow for the drop-down menu on the right side!

An Interactor can have several parameters which give the option to take influence on the interaction. Interactor parameters needs to be provided by the uploaded scripts, too. Otherwise this table is empty.

Each parameter is defined by the following proporties:

• Name: The name of the parameter
• Type: The type of the parameter. Parameters can have different the following types:
  • Length: Number as length in M
  • Integer: Number as integer
  • Float: Number as float
  • Boolean: Boolean
  • String: String
  • Material: Material as string
  • ArcDEG: Number as degree
• Description (Default): The description of the parameter. The default values is shown in brackets.
• Value: The current value of a parameter. This can be a constant or a JavaScript snippet.

To learn more about using JavaScript expressions and Context functions, see the following links: Needs to be provided

An Interactor can have an image that shows and helps understanding the Interactor and its parameters. The image can be uploaded together with the Interactor script.

• Kinematics
• Evaluators