Hey all.
Cthulhu, nice script but it pops up every time i start max. How can i stop it from doing that?? I removed it from the stdplugs… folder.
I’d like to launch it when i need it not every time i start max
Tho it’s a damn useful script!!
Thanks!
hmm… if you put the script in the script\ folder, it shouldn’t start automatically on startup. you can also put it into a toolbar so you have quick access to it, just open the script, mark everything and drag the code into a toolbar, then it will be placed there as a macroscipt button. glad you like it
hehe cool :D…
i do have a suggestion tho… can you make it so it takes a screengrab after you’ve released the mouse button. As it is now it takes grabs while you’re “moving” so to speak… it makes my max very slow :(…
Edit: Oh and mebbe make it so you can choose the resulotion of the images :)… i’m my case i like to work with only one viewport maxed up, and that gives me almost 1600×1200 grabs :)…
ok, i added an option to disable capturing while a mousebutton is pressed and a little info showing you how many images have been captured and some minor changes… resizing the image while capturing is not a good idea, extremly slows down the capturing, so you should do that afterwards with a batch process or something. i tried to lock the viewport at a specific size, but this doesn’t seem to work either…
i turned the script into a macroscript now, so you have to add it to a toolbar first (category “ViewportGrabber”), if you already added the old version as a macroscript, you should remove that first…
happy capturing
the scaling thing just didn’t get out of my head, so i read the manual again and found a way to scale fast enough, so you can enter a size now and output images will be scaled to that. this also allows you to change the viewport size during capturing. and this made it possible to directly save the images as an avi movie, just select avi type in the file dialog. haven’t tried it with .mov though.
wow Cthulhu :)…
i’ll have to try it asap
i just did some more changes: there now is an option for adding a mousepointer to the output images, a pause button and i changed the autograb, it now works as its supposed to do all options are interactive now, so you can change the grabbing speed, buttonstates and autograb while capturing…
hehe you’re a real bad ass :)…
in a good way
Cthulhu, first i’ve put the script in the stdplugs/stdscripts folder and then i removed it from there it still loads at startup. Why is that?
Thanks!
hmm, dont know why this would happen… maybe you should search in the \scripts, \stdplugs and \ui directory for the script, delete it, then restart max and add it again. sometimes max saves a copy of a script somewhere when you add it as macroscript. this could be the reason, and to be totaly sure, check your 3dsmax.ini, normally, there shouldnt be saved any script related things in there, but who knows??