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[Closed] UVW Channel moving
Mar 28, 2012 12:46 pm
This is a snippet from a tool I’m writing to streamline some processes for our artists. We have models are unwrapped on channel 1, then unwrapped on channel 3 for baking. Once we have baked a texture we drop channel 3 onto channel 1 and apply the baked texture.
Now I’ve basically tried to recreate the process in maxscript and hit a problem. When the object already has UVW modiifier in the stack on channel 3, it works fine. However if the stack is collapsed, I would expect my code to add a unwrap modifier go to channel 3 and reset, then move that to channel 1. What it actually does is change the modifier to channel 1 without actually moving the UVWs.
I’m using max 2012
-- check if UV Modifier exists
if (ClassOf $.modifiers[1]) == unwrap_uvw then
(
print ("unwrap modifier exists")
-- uvw modifier exists, assume it's on channel 3, so set it to channel 1
$.unwrap_uvw.unwrap.setMapChannel 0
)
--else add UV Modifier
--select channel 3, then reset UV then channel 1
else
(
print ("no unwrap modifier exists")
-- add uvw modifier
modPanel.addModToSelection (Unwrap_UVW ()) ui:on
-- set uvw channel to 3
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap.setMapChannel 3
-- reset uvws
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap.reset ()
-- set uvw channel to 1
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap.setMapChannel 0
)