It’s something I;ve been threatening myself with for a long time and now I’ve finally bit the bullet. A VMS type UI that builds rollouts using the relative positioning system (across, align, offset)
I have so far built in all layout functionality for all controls and a method of saving and loading rollouts in a tab delimited layout file.
I’m going to upload a video (using my brand new shiny Camtasia demo! :sad:)
At present you can only build rollouts and load rollouts saved in my own format. I can’t figure out how to parse maxscript files to load rollouts into the system, so if anyone would like to give me a BIG hand, I’d be greatful.
The UI needs to be cleaned up a bit, but for the mean time… Here is a screenshot.
Wahooney,
this looks very promissing – again.
Looking forward to see the demo and the strechy IK
Georg
Thanks Georg,
The reason I made this was that most of my Rollouts in RAK were made in VMS so everything is absolutely positioned and I wanted a visual way of laying my stuff out again, that’s why the Stretchy IK button is there, I was busy laying out a rollout for RAK2 when I took that shot. When I’ve finished that panel I’ll post a video demo of Stretchy IK.
I recorded a demo last night, but I was too lazy to stay up and upload it. So here it is!
Rollout Builder Video Demo
You’ll need the Techsmith codec to view it.
Just watched the demo.
This is definitely a must-have!
Georg
I’ll see if I can release it tonight. I just want to put it a bit through it’s paces first.
Still going to need someone to help me with a rollout parser, any volunteers?
Sorry – I cannot help you here.
I am knee deep in a generic Desktop Publishing CMYK jungle …
Georg
Are you using any codecs on the demo video?. Will not run under WMP/Divx for me.
p.s. when are you, Bobo, Neale, Seagull, Lagnecrantz and Huguet going team up to write the next gen 3D app to replace Max/Maya/SXI/LW… ;()
thanks
You’re going to have to download and install the Techsmith Codec.
As for the second question, we’ll do it as soon as I move up to Canada or Paul and Bobo move down here to South Africa and some guy that has a couple of billion dollars that he just doesn’t know how to spend comes along
Rollout Builder is now called:
Rollout Army Knife!
it seemed the obvious choice
You should add it to a Hot Key, Menu or Quad Menu, tutorials can be found here.
The video demo will still help you out, but note that some of the controls have moved around a bit. I’ll record a new video demo and upload it tomorrow evening (18 hours from now, for those not in Central African time ) gettin sleepy and I need to get up early on the morrow.
At the moment this script is at the point that I need it to be, but I will be adding more features, but at the moment this script is just meant to aid the layout process of rollouts.
Please give me any bugs you may find, I am open to suggested features, but the chances of them being added in the near future are remote as this script will probably have undergo a complete rewrite sometime and will be added as part of Scripters Army Knife.
Oh boy I love army knives!
No seriously, this looks really useful, I’m gonna try it out soon. Looks like something that I can definitely use for all of my random scripts that I wrote at one time or another (i.e. som random bevel script etc.)
thanks man
Cheers
Gerd