I’m trying to find a good way to automatically cycle through an object’s modifiers within MaxScript. I can’t find a way to do this without using the rather cumbersome “modPanel.setCurrentObject” method. The primary concern I have with using that method is that I get the same warning popup that I would get manually clicking through the stack. (i.e. “A modifier exists in the stack that depends on topology. Changing parameters may have undesirable effects”).
I have the option to disable this message box, which solves the problem for the short term, but I don’t know how to turn it back on again when I am done running the script. I would like it to skip these warnings while the script is running (kind of pointless to have a script to automate something and then need to click a stream of annoying dialog boxes), but then turn them back on so I don’t accidentally screw up any topology dependent modifiers afterward.
If there is a way to do what I need without using modPanel methods, that would be even better. So, what are my options?
Not sure what you’re looking for exactly, but you can get to an object’s modifiers via
$Object.modifiers[index] where the index starts at 1, and 1 is always the modifier at the top of the stack
So real simply you can do a for loop to go through all and change the parameters / check the class of each modifier, etc.
for i = 1 to $.modifiers.count do
(
print (classof $.modifiers[i])
show $.modifiers[i]
)
this an other way to access to a modifier:
$.modifiers[#ModifierName]
or
$.modifiers[#'Modifier Name']
I knew about that, but thanks. Unfortunately I am working with a 3rd party plugin object class that requires me to actually be -on- the base object in the stack in order to access its properties. So using $.baseobject doesn’t work (I get the error: “Unable to convert: cgMuscle to type: <node>”). I was using modpanel.setcurrentobject $, which worked, but then I kept getting prompted with the warning message popup for each object.
For now, I have disabled the warning, but I feel nervous about leaving it off… how do I turn it back on again?
Preferences > general > UI display group > “Display Topology-Depence Warning” checkbox
-Johan
Thanks, appreciate it!