Filter Custom Messages
Lets have a look at a more advanced usecase: We only want to react to an osc message with a specific value in the arguments.
A OSC message may look like this:
/custom/osc/message 4 myTexVvalue 5.63 1
with the structure
address args
where in the above example the args is a tuple with 4 values
- address = /custom/osc/message
- arg0 = 4
- arg1 = 'myTextValue'
- arg2 = 5.63
- arg3 = 1
In the following examples the osc message would look something like this:
/objects/filtered/Cube 11 10.0 15.2 -5.3
Like with the previous example, We can see we receive the message on /objects/filtered/Cube. We want to apply the arguments on the data-path bpy.data.objects['Cube'].location, but since the message contains 4 arguments and the positional information are on the indices 1, 2 and 3, args[idx] is set to (1, 2, 3)
But now we also want to filter agains the first argument, args[0]. So we enable the filter and enter the condition args[0] == 11.
Now only messages with the address /objects/filtered/Cube and the value 11 for the first argument are evaluated and applied to the datapath.
but we can do even better -> Format-Custom-Messages