You can instance them there as well, works great and is probably faster then wires. It was just a habit to write it that way.
Glad that you have it working, I can鈥檛 wait to see the final results.
ok script is working fine but now i have a verable that wont run.
i am using a basic toolbar to feed it values but when i run it it errors out.
here is where the problem lyes when i鈥檓 trying to feed a spinner to a string
鈥搝Param=(spn1.value)
鈥搙Param=(spn2.value)鈥搕his is what i want to work
when i try to use this and it calutales the string i get a message saying 鈥渦nable to convert: 1 to Type: string鈥?where 1 is the value on the interface spinner and is suposed to repersent the contoller number.
of course if i do this it works fine
xParam=鈥?鈥?br>
zParam=鈥?鈥?/p>
all i can work out is that it doesnt like beening feed numbers into a string surly there is a way around this like 鈥減rint spn1.value鈥?or somthing. i have evne tried
xParam= execute 鈥渟pn2.value鈥?/p>
here is the code
macroscript instance_controller
category:"john Scripts"
(
rollout johnboy "Face j rigg tools"
(
button btn1 "eggs-e-cute" pos:[50,160] width:91 height:32
GroupBox grp1 "Selections" pos:[5,45] width:190 height:100
spinner spn1 "controller number " pos:[80,60] width:106 height:16 range:[0,10000,1] type:#integer
spinner spn2 "modifier number " pos:[82,85] width:104 height:16 range:[0,10000,1] type:#integer
checkbox rotCheckBox "Rotation" pos:[10,100]
checkbox posCheckBox "Postion" pos:[10,120]
label lbl3 "Select objects you want to paste from and to " pos:[9,10] width:182 height:27
on btn1 pressed do
(
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
dParam=(getobj.name+"_Pos")
hParam=(getobj.name+"_Rot")
aParam=(getobj.name+"_xPos")
bParam=(getobj.name+"_yPos")
cParam=(getobj.name+"_zPos")
eParam=(getobj.name+"_xRot")
fParam=(getobj.name+"_yRot")
gParam=(getobj.name+"_zRot")
--xParam=(spn2.value)
--zParam=(spn1.value)
xParam="1"
zParam="1"
(--position start--on posCheckBox yes do
(
str="def=attributes "+dParam +"
(
"
str+=" parameters faceP
(
"
str+=" "+aParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+bParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+cParam +" type:#float
)
"
str+=")
"
)
caDef=execute str
custAttributes.add setobj.modifiers[1] caDef
)
(
(
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
str="
(
setobj.modifiers[1]."+dParam +"."+aParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].x_position.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers[1]."+dParam +"."+bParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].y_position.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers[1]."+dParam +"."+cParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].Z_position.controller
)
"
)
execute str
)
(--rotation start-on rotCheckBox yes do
(
str="def=attributes "+hParam +"
(
"
str+=" parameters faceP
(
"
str+=" "+eParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+fParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+gParam +" type:#float
)
"
str+=")
"
)
caDef=execute str
custAttributes.add setobj.modifiers[1] caDef
)
(
(
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
str="
(
setobj.modifiers[1]."+hParam +"."+eParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+xParam +"].x_rotation.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers[1]."+hParam +"."+fParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+xParam +"].y_rotation.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers[1]."+hParam +"."+gParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+xParam +"].Z_rotation.controller
)
"
)
execute str
)
)
)
CreateDialog johnboy width:200 height:200
)-- end of rollout
any help would be great
cheers
john
Ok well i missed that one in the maxscript help! tipical though as soon as i鈥檓 about crack and i post a question i worked it out for myself.
i just worked it out that for all numbers or integers i needed to have 鈥渁s string鈥?after them
so finally got
xParam= spn2.value as string
zParam= spn1.value as string
work a treat:thumbsup:
its getting there
if anyone has any other feature requests i鈥檓 willing to see how far i can take this script
maybe make it so it can auto ad spiners and sliders for you characters
cheers
john
ok just posting to show you how things are coming along.
the only thing left to do is to get my checkboxes working. the only problem i鈥檓 hving is how to set it out. i think i鈥檓 approuching it the wrong way. what i want is for it to excucute bit of script depending on if the attribute is checked.
this is what i have but it won鈥檛 evaluate at this stage i havent worked out why yet so any clues would be great.
macroscript instance_controller
category:"john Scripts"
(
rollout johnboy "Face j rigg tools"
(
button btn1 "eggs-e-cute" pos:[50,160] width:91 height:32
GroupBox grp1 "Selections" pos:[5,45] width:190 height:100
spinner spn1 "controller number " pos:[80,60] width:106 height:16 range:[0,10000,1] type:#integer
spinner spn2 "modifier number " pos:[82,85] width:104 height:16 range:[0,10000,1] type:#integer
checkbox rotCheckBox "Rotation" pos:[10,100]
checkbox posCheckBox "Postion" pos:[10,120]
label lbl3 "Select objects you want to paste from and to " pos:[9,10] width:182 height:27
on btn1 pressed do
(
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
dParam=(getobj.name+"_Pos")
hParam=(getobj.name+"_Rot")
aParam=(getobj.name+"_xPos")
bParam=(getobj.name+"_yPos")
cParam=(getobj.name+"_zPos")
eParam=(getobj.name+"_xRot")
fParam=(getobj.name+"_yRot")
gParam=(getobj.name+"_zRot")
xParam= spn2.value as string
zParam= spn1.value as string
yParam= spn2.value
(
on posCheckBox changed state do
(
(
str="def=attributes "+dParam +"
(
"
str+=" parameters faceP
(
"
str+=" "+aParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+bParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+cParam +" type:#float
)
"
str+=")
"
caDef=execute str
custAttributes.add setobj.modifiers[yParam] caDef
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
str="
(
setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+dParam +"."+aParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].x_position.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+dParam +"."+bParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].y_position.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+dParam +"."+cParam +".controller= getobj.pos.controller["+zParam +"].Z_position.controller
)
"
)
execute str
(
on rotCheckBox changed state do
(
(
str="def=attributes "+hParam +"
(
"
str+=" parameters faceP
(
"
str+=" "+eParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+fParam +" type:#float
"
str+=" "+gParam +" type:#float
)
"
str+=")
"
caDef=execute str
custAttributes.add setobj.modifiers[yParam] caDef
getobj=selection[1]
setobj=selection[2]
str="
(
setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+hParam +"."+eParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+zParam +"].x_rotation.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+hParam +"."+fParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+zParam +"].y_rotation.controller
"
str+=" setobj.modifiers["+xParam +"]."+hParam +"."+gParam +".controller= getobj.rotation.controller["+zParam +"].Z_rotation.controller
)
"
)
execute str
)
)
CreateDialog johnboy width:200 height:200
)
)
)
)-- end of rollout
i鈥檓 so close now. without the check boxes in the script everything works well you can choose what controller and what modifier you want it to instance to.
anyway
cheers
john
Ok yes i got it working.
the problem i was having was not the checkboxs at all i just needed to decler a few global varables. its allways somthing simple
here it the final script. download
and a test file download
install instructions are in the script
any coments would be great
anyway thanks again paul for your help.
cheers
john