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Debugging per particle expressions is pain in the butt when you have lot's of stuff affecting things. I figured if I just could export the data out of few particles in to a text file and import that in a spread sheet program like excel (i use star office). This way I could get a graph out of virtually anything. So I though I could create a shelf button (thanks danny for the idea) labeled "Export debug data". But I ran in to a problem. Take a look at the code and you'll see what I mean.

Code:

global proc oceanDebug()

{

        string $fileName = ( `internalVar -userTmpDir` + "debug.csv" );

        int $fileId=`fopen $fileName "w"`;



        int $rangeMin, $rangeMax, $i;

        $rangeMin = `playbackOptions -q -min`;

        $rangeMax = `playbackOptions -q -max`;



        for($i = $rangeMin; $i <= $rangeMax; $i++)

        {

                currentTime $i;

                // Here comes the problem...

                string $debugData = "Hmm... I can't access per particle attributes from here, can I?\r\n";

                fprint $fileId $debugData;

        }



        fclose $fileId;

        print "Debug data exported successfully.\n";

}