hi all, first post in maxscript.
i have 300~ objects with names from 01 to 300, i want to show only one of them at each rendered frame. i guess i want to hide all the rest but cant find the method to tie the [hide] to current rendered frame.
now i use a callback to the slider, only after it worked i red it doesnt perform in render…
i tried with [animate on] but [hide] doesnt animate (i think) and anyways i would like to know if i can without…
btw. ignore the pad function, i ripped it from another thread to handle the padding in the objects name.
unRegisterTimeCallback calcVisiblityOfCloud
fn pad inp ln ch:"0" = (
inp = inp as string
while inp.count < ln do inp = ch + inp
inp
)
----------------------------------------------------
fn calcVisiblityOfCloud =
(
/* PlyMesh01 - 284*/
iFrame = pad (currentTime.frame as integer) 2
hide $*plyMesh*
showMe = execute("$PlyMesh"+iFrame)
unhide showMe
)
registerTimeCallback calcVisiblityOfCloud
Why not just animate the visibility?
Your first nine objects will need to be single numbers, not ‘01’ but ‘1’.
My objects where “box1” -> “Box300” you can change the prefix in the script in the getnodeby name function.
(
for i=1 to 300 do
(
TempNode = getnodeByName ("box"+( i as string))
if ( isValidNode TempNode == true ) do
(
-- create Controller and set to zero
local tnCont= Bezier_Float()
tnCont.value = 0.0
animate on
(
-- add invisible key before and after time you want it to be visible
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i-1)
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i+1)
-- add visible key at the time you want to see it
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i)
tnKey.value = 1.0
)
-- apply controller to node
TempNode.visibility.controller = tnCont
)
)
)
thanks, i found many useful syntax tidbits in your script.
actully, i guess hidden or invisible my script demands a diffrent method.
i have too many polygons for keeping max stable.
i need to delete and add modifiers at each frame.
i currntly use the callback mathod that ends with a call to a render frame.
so… there is no way to have things happen depending on the current frame at render time?
setup(){}
draw(){}
Max does not like things changing in scene when rendering a range. If you have it working as you like on the slider, you can just call a series of individual renders, instead of trying to render a sequence.
for i= 1 to 300 do
(
sliderTime = i
render filename:("D:\ emp\\Fileout_"+(i as string)+".jpg")
)
thanks so much,
just a quick typo, the render should get a outputfile: and not filename:
oh yeah… Sorry about that… That’s the problem with coding directly to the forum…