ok I’ve posted this in one of those stickies but few people seem to read it… so I thought I add this in a extra thread:
here’s an idea for a pretty cool script
the modeling recorder:
-click record
-select one (or more) polygons and start modeling (shift-scaling, chamfering, extruding, beveling, insetting, connecting etc.) as often as you want to
-click stop recording
-select another poly
-click play
-> voila! he saves the steps and applies them to the newly selected surface
-> as a plus you can really record these steps and animate them… with this you can animate how you are modelling (enter a timeframe for the record)
-> you can also save your steps… after using it for a while you have a lot of variations and can turn any surface into various amounts of detailed interesting decorations
damn that’d be great… don’t know how hard it is since I have no clue about maxscript whatsoever!
what do you think?
can’t wait for feedback!
Hi.
If I’ve understood correctly, what you want is something like the recorder in applications such as ZBrush or Painter where you can record every action and then save them to a file that could be replayed afterwards.
I’m not an expert in MAX & MAXScript but I think is not possible to record every action done in MAX. I mean, you have the macro recorder but as far as I know, you can’t access to the recorded data. Also, the macro recorder doesn’t catch every action in MAX so this is another problem.
Anyway it would be a very interesting tool. I’ll wait and see what the experts have to say on this.
no i thought it’s not working for the whole interface.
Only in an Editable Poly in Poly subobjects with limited functionality (see above: shift-scaling, chamfering, extruding, beveling, insetting, connecting etc.)
do you guys think the idea is bad?
or is it too hard / impossible to script?
How about just using an edit poly modifier and then copy and pasting the modifier onto another object?