I’m doing my first max script.
All the complicated stuff works, but
what should be simple doesn’t!
I’m trying to select an object I’ve just
cloned and put a mesh select modifier
on it. It keeps erroring out saying
it’s got an undefined class.
Here’s the code:
– add a mesh selection modifier
addModifier ($(js_LifeObjectName)) (Mesh_Select())
I get this:
– Error occurred in s loop
– Frame:
– s: 1
– js_LifeObjectName: “Life001001”
– called in r loop
– Frame:
– r: 1
– called in js_LifeCreate()
– Frame:
– n: 12
– obj: $Editable_Mesh:Box01 @ [-4.743082,-4.347826,0.000000]
– called in js_LifeCreatePickButton()
– Frame:
– obj: $Editable_Mesh:Box01 @ [-4.743082,-4.347826,0.000000]
>> MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception: – Type error: Call needs function or class, got: undefined <<
js_LifeObjectName names the object.
I can see the object exists. The debug
output shows the variable is set.
I tried putting in $js_LifeObjectName
and $(js_LifeObjectName) and
($(js_LifeObjectName))
Why isn’t it using the string as the
object name when I use
$(js_LifeObjectName)?
I suspect js_LifeObjectName is a string value containing the name of the object?
If this is the case, you can get the actual object with:
getNodeByName js_LifeObjectName
so, to add the mesh select modifier try the following:
addModifier (getNodeByName js_LifeObjectName) (Mesh_Select())
Martijn
Thanks very much! That was exactly
what I was looking for. Somewhere
I thought I read that it would
recursively evaluate an expression
and that $( string_naming_your_object )
would evaluate to $Object_name and
thus reference the object.
Thanks again!