I am trying to get an effect similar to imprinting an object into a clay-like material. Something similar to boolean subtraction except there can be no “undercuts” in the imprinted shape.
Any ideas how this could be accomplished using MaxScript?
Also, the models I want to imprint this way can be quite complex with up to a million faces so I need a quite efficient algorithm.
This is my first post here. Any help would be appreciated.
To make a good impression you just need to act natural. :hmm: sorry lame pun, but I came up with a script just to have an excuse to post it. try this out:
subobjectLevel = 4
PolyToolsSelect.Normal 3 91.0 true
nom = uniquename( $.name + " imprint")
polyop.detachFaces $ (polyop.getfaceselection $) delete:false asNode:true name:nom
select (getnodebyname nom)
modPanel.addModToSelection (shel = shell()) ui:on
shel.innerAmount = 0
shel.outeramount = 0
shel.selectInnerFaces = true
modPanel.addModToSelection (Edit_Poly ()) ui:on
subobjectLevel = 4
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].ButtonOp #MakePlanarInZ
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].SetOperation #Transform
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].MoveSelection [0,0,100]
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].Commit ()
subobjectLevel = 0
Thanks nudity for your answer! Your solution seems to work well for simple objects, but for more complex ones the resulting object is made up of many separate elements and can’t be used to cut out the actual imprint, unless I’m doing something wrong…