[Closed] Storing Scripted Materials Rollout RolledUp State?

Jan 22, 2007 8:05 pm

I’m having difficulty in storing the rolledUp state of rollouts in a Scripted Custom Material. I’m trying to maintaint the rolledUp state between Max sessions, or even when clicking back and forth between multiple materials.

Storing a boolean in the parameter block that is used during the rollout definition seems not to work as the variable is inaccesible to the rollout at definition time.

I also can’t seem to find an event handler that could be used to set the rolledUp state when swapping materials in the material editor…

Anyone have any idea?!

Thanks in advance!

4 Replies

Dmaxer

Jan 22, 2007 8:05 pm

could you not just store the info in a data file and get your script to read that file on startup ?

sl4ppy

Jan 22, 2007 8:05 pm

I thought about that briefely originallly, but storing scripted material data in an external data file seems a bit impractical. Not only would it add an additional file to track with asset managment, but having a discreet data file for every custom material in any given scene might be a bit cumbersome…

 Here's some sample code that *doesn't* work but conveys what I'm trying to do...


     plugin material testMaterial
     	name:"Test Material"
     	classID:#(0x10093868, 0xc9e1d78)
     	extends:Standard replaceUI:true version:1
     (
     	parameters general rollout:generalRollout
     	(
     		rollState		type:#boolean		default:false
     	)
     	rollout generalRollout "General" rolledUp:rollstate
     	(
     		button test "test"
     	)
     	on generalRollout rolledUp theState do rollState = theState
     )

This code is invalid because rollState is not accesible to the rollout defenition.