[Closed] New Scripter

A bit more about the issue:

I have a controller object that will contain sliders that control the rotations of the fingers.

I want to set up a bunch of parameters eg:
Thumb_X
Thumb_Y
Thumb_Z

I wish for them to be a slider type with a range of -1 to 1.

right now I have something like:

$‘Right Hand Ctrl’.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes.add [#Thumb_X]

Max has no clue what “.add” is and I am not sure what else to put to make sure the attribute is a slider with a range of -1 to 1.

This part just has me all stuck. :banghead:

 penHisMod = $.modifiers[1]
 PEN_Attribute_Holder 2:PEN_Attribute_Holder 2
 
 attr_helloworld = attributes "Hello World" (
 	rollout roll_hello "Hello!" (
 		slider sld_world "World" range:[-1,1,0] type:#float
 	)
 	parameters main rollout:roll_hello (
 		world type:#float ui:sld_world
 	)
 )
 <AttributeDef:Hello World>
 
 custAttributes.add penHisMod attr_helloworld
 true
 penHisMod.world
 0.0
 -- manually move slider all the way left
 penHisMod.world
 -1.0
 -- manually move slider all the way right
 penHisMod.world
 1.0
 

Edit: ignore the ‘interval:0.01’ I had on the slider – that was for an internal tool ( gotten too used to writing it >_< )

Thanks for posting back.

I guess before I can implement this code, I need to understand it a bit more.

Right now I’m at a level 0 for scripting. My scripts are stupid simple and taken out of MaxScript Listener. If MaxScript doesn’t “hear” it, I am lost.

I have a script to add a rotation list and an extra euler to a bone, and to rename them, looks like this:

--Left Hand 
-- Left Index Finger 
$'Left Index 00'.rotation.controller = rotation_list ()
$'Left Index 00'.rotation.controller.Available.controller = Euler_XYZ () 
$'Left Index 00'.rotation.controller.setname 1 "init" 
$'Left Index 00'.rotation.controller.setname 2 "Wire" 
$'Left Index 00'.rotation.controller.setActive 2 

$'Left Index 01'.rotation.controller = rotation_list () 
$'Left Index 01'.rotation.controller.Available.controller = Euler_XYZ () 
$'Left Index 01'.rotation.controller.setname 1 "init" 
$'Left Index 01'.rotation.controller.setname 2 "Wire" 
$'Left Index 01'.rotation.controller.setActive 2 

$'Left Index 02'.rotation.controller = rotation_list () 
$'Left Index 02'.rotation.controller.Available.controller = Euler_XYZ () 
$'Left Index 02'.rotation.controller.setname 1 "init" 
$'Left Index 02'.rotation.controller.setname 2 "Wire" 
$'Left Index 02'.rotation.controller.setActive 2 

-- Left Middle Finger 
$'Left Middle 00'.rotation.controller = rotation_list () 
$'Left Middle 00'.rotation.controller.Available.controller = Euler_XYZ () 
$'Left Middle 00'.rotation.controller.setname 1 "init" 
$'Left Middle 00'.rotation.controller.setname 2 "Wire" 
$'Left Middle 00'.rotation.controller.setActive 2 

$'Left Middle 01'.rotation.controller = rotation_list () 
$'Left Middle 01'.rotation.controller.Available.controller = Euler_XYZ () 
$'Left Middle 01'.rotation.controller.setname 1 "init" 
$'Left Middle 01'.rotation.controller.setname 2 "Wire" 
$'Left Middle 01'.rotation.controller.setActive 2
ect...

Then I have a script to wire them to the controller, looks like this:

select $'Left Thumb 01' paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_X] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#X_Rotation] "Thumb_X" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_Y] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Y_Rotation] "Thumb_Y" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_Z] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Z_Rotation] "Thumb_Z" 

select $'Left Thumb 02' paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_X] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#X_Rotation] "Thumb_X" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_Y] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Y_Rotation] "Thumb_Y" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Thumb_Z] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Z_Rotation] "Thumb_Z" 

select $'Left Index 00' paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_X] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#X_Rotation] "Index_X" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_Y] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Y_Rotation] "Index_Y" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_Z] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Z_Rotation] "Index_Z" 

select $'Left Index 01' paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_X] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#X_Rotation] "Index_X" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_Y] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Y_Rotation] "Index_Y" paramWire.connect 
$'Left Hand Ctrl'.modifiers[#PEN_Attribute_Holder_2].Custom_Attributes[#Index_Z] 
$.rotation.controller.wire.controller[#Z_Rotation] "Index_Z"
ect...

I tried using your script to add the “Hello World” to a pen attribute holder to a box with that modifier. When I tried to run the script I would get an issue with the second line:

PEN_Attribute_Holder 2:PEN_Attribute_Holder 2

Anyway, Thanks for taking the time to help out a scriptnub.

Awesome! Got it working now. Now to see if I can tweek it to have a roll out per each finger.

Thanks much for the help!