max7 or 8
Is it possible to script a button that’d toggle the scenes biped in and out of figure mode …without having to leave your current selection? (like for exanple I ‘m editing the mesh or skin weights)
I know almost nothing about scripting other than you can drag stuff onto toolbar to make a button.
I find myself toggling fig mode quite a bit and having to stop what i’m doing select a bip piece open the motion tab etc etc…
I’m also open to any other creative ways to make that go faster…it’s likely there’s some hidden thingie i don’t know about
I did do a search ofthese forums but the string i found… <biped>.controller.figuremode = true
I’m not sure what to do with…
thanks for even reading this
ok, make a new script… paste this in and drag it onto a new toolbar. this will toggle figure mode on and off for a selected bip
with some more scripting it is possible to run the code on any biped part ( but this is real quick here) just a case of finding the main parent based upon the selection
if you want this to work regardles of what you are doing then change $ for your biped name…
[size=1]if $.controller.figuremode == false
then
(
$.controller.figuremode = true
)
else
(
$.controller.figuremode = false
)
i will try and see if i can make this a little more user freindly so you can select from all bipeds in the scene to put all or some into figure mode
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Thanks !
this is a huge help…
someone else just posted a bunch of scripts too having to do with biped…but this is really the one I want!
I usually only need this when I only have one biped in the scene…so I’m good with this!
ok so i have written a tool that allows you to set figure mode for any biped in the scene. I will put put it on line and put a link to it here asap
Dave,
I found this link after I ‘s posted this thread …(it was in main max forums)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=284435&goto=newpost
he’s got a fig toggle and a dialog to select which bip it’s affected by…
i like your idea of just wildcard toggling all of them. That makes sense. The script from the other thread seems to ask you which one at he beginning of a max session…your method sounds global and universally applicable to every file which means i can just leave it as a permanent button in my UI.
currently
I tried plugging in the name of my bip , BIP ROOT , into the script you gave me but i got a syntax error… i replaced $ with BIP ROOT… i never touched scripting before so i imagine that it’s got to have “BIP ROOT” buut when i tried that I got Unknown property: “controller” in “BIP ROOT” <<
if BIP ROOT.controller.figuremode == false
then
(
BIP ROOT.controller.figuremode = true
)
else
(
BIP ROOT.controller.figuremode = false
)
Assuming “BIP ROOT” is an object name, try this:
if [b]$'BIP ROOT'[/b].controller.figuremode == false then
(
[b]$'BIP ROOT'[/b].controller.figuremode = true
)
else
(
[b]$'BIP ROOT'[/b].controller.figuremode = false
)
Or as a one-liner:
[b]$'BIP ROOT'[/b].controller.figuremode = not [b]$'BIP ROOT'[/b].controller.figuremode
Cheers,
Martijn
wow thanks you guys are fast! I got a magic button now!