First off please excuse me in advance for having such little grasp of maxscript, but i’ve written a few in the past based off what the listener will give me – just to sort of speed of my tedious tasks. Today I decided to work on one that’d help me with this text we use here.
Backstory: This font we use that I need to put into 3dsmax (8) everyday is a font that is horrible at extruding. If I Extrude or shell just the text shape it will never create a closed spline and will make for a very ugly extrusion. The way i’ve found around this is that I have to break the text into an editable Spline and select everything in vertex sub object and weld all veritices. From there I can extrude or shell the shape exactly how I need to. Well this can create quite a speed bump when I have tons of seperate text objects so I wanted to create a script based off what I saw from the listener and read in the maxscript help file.
This is my code:
macros.run “Modifier Stack” “Convert_to_Spline”
subobjectLevel = 1
actionMan.executeAction 0 “40021”
splineops.weld $
modPanel.addModToSelection (Shell ()) ui:on
[font=Verdana]Now when I “evaluate” this text script (control E) it runs smoothly and gives me a nicely extruded object. But when I save it and “run script” or run it as a rollout, it goes through everything but seems to forget to weld the vertices.
Please help.
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Usually the stuff from the listener is not the best syntax… Here is a quick an dirty little script which does what you need:
if selection.count == 1 then
(
if superclassof selection[1] == shape then
(
subObjectLevel = 1
max select all
splineOps.weld selection[1]
subObjectLevel = 0
updateshape sel
)
)
Hope this helps.
i’m not sure what i’m doing wrong in regards to maxscript but the same thing is happening, when I evaluate the script it works fine, but when I execute it from the maxscript file menu, it converts it to an editable spline and extrudes the unwelded shapes.
Any idea why it’s skipping the weld?
edit: By the way thank you very much for your help, i appreciate it.
I didn’t add any extrude modifiers in mine so maybe you didn’t update the right file and it still sees your initial script?. This should just weld the verts to the treshold you have setup in Max. And to create a macroscript just drag the code on maxs’ interface and it will create one for you.
Let me know if you have any more issues.
yeah anton I added the extrude modifier myself as that was the intention of the script. After that didn’t work I started removing elements of the script to debug it.
After uncommenting out line by line and evaluating the script each line executed correctly. Then after loading the script via file menu and placing on the UI it would convert to Editable Spline (that I added as well) and then extrude, totally bypassing the select all and weld selected vertices.
Maybe my version of max has something wrong with it along the way of loading/running the script? Just standard version of 8 and whatever they’ve added to it at work.
Hi,
Try this:
(
convertToSplineShape selection[1]
max modify mode
subObjectLevel = 1
max select all
splineOps.weld selection[1]
)
Light
okay, i’ve just dealt with a workaround. As the code you guys are posting is understandably simple, the problem is likely with my end. I’ve been able to get results from just having 2 hotkeys, one to convert and weld, the other to shell it. For some reason having the shell in with the subobject level / weld would bypass the subobject select and the weld. shrug, 2 clicks now instead of 10.