Hi,
Is it possible to select a scene camera via script ?for example,there 3 camreas in a scene ,of course we can select 1 camera via
select $Camera002
but I want to know how can select it by Select Camera dialog via script?
Where you have the cameras in your script? In a array. I think I don’t understand exactly your question, sorry. You will build your own camera list tool?
There is a system variable: “cameras”, this is a array and in that you can select a camera like:
select cameras[2]
Or:
camName = Camera002
for i = 1 to cameras.count do (
if cameras[i].name == camName do (
select cameras[i]
)
)
Thanks jb-alvarado,I want to turn Perspertive to Camera viewport,like in 3dsmax,press “C” key to select a camera ,then the viewport would change to camera viewport,the question is ,to do that ,need to select a camera in list,right?so my question is how to make it via script.your script is simple and works fine,but I don’t know how to do the important last step-after I select a camera ,how to change the viewport to camera viewport?
My goal is change the currnet Front or perspective(whatever) to camera viewport,we can do it in 3dsmax manual
1.Press “C” key as I said,the will appear a dialog to select camera
2.Select one you will switch,then the current viewport changes to camera viewport
It will works fine via script like this:
execute("select $"+cameras[1].name) --select a camera,if it exsit
max vpt camera --change current viewport to camera viewport
But,if the camera grouped with other objects,before it changes to the camera viewport,the select camera dialog will appear ,let you choose one.
I know someone can tell ,why not ungroup it ,then select a camera?I don’t want to do that is the reason if you have a big scene ,if you ungroup ,some objects will move to a new position,so try to avoid it ,I need a way to handle camera viewport without ungroup.
So I am going to know ,how to do that via script,sorry for my first question was not clearly
You find it in the maxscript help:
http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/14/ENU/MAXScript%20Help%202012/index.html?url=files/GUID-8AA71F9E-F4F0-4437-A44E-9683619E89D-1999.htm,topicNumber=d28e671593
viewport.setCamera <camera_or_light_node>
Sets the active viewport to a Camera view, using the specified camera.
You can also set the active view to a Light view using a free, target or direct light.
Too much too much thanks,it works!!!whatever the cameras in a group!
viewport.setCamera $Camera002