[Closed] Precise position export with MaxScript

max use single number to save data , it’s only 5 number are faithful ，that’s why you get the number longer than 5 will be limited
if you really need the incredible part , you can get by mod obj.pos.x 1
that ‘s just an approximate value , and there ‘s no accuracy value

thanks for suggestion! I edited script to be like this:

outputFile = createFile "c:\output.txt"

for obj in $ do
(
format "% X_pos:% Y_pos:% Z_pos:%
" obj.name (mod obj.pos.x 1) (mod obj.pos.y 1) (mod obj.pos.z 1) to:outputFile
)

close outputFile

However with this output now omits values, so instead of X:-20531.262 I am getting X:-0.262, any way to fix this?

use formattedPrint

I always thought formattedPrint print any where ，as it won’t print in loop

formattedPrint obj.pos format:"1.11g"
it’s maybe your need, mod was to get the fraction part

Thanks guys, I edited script to be like this:

outputFile = createFile "c:\output.txt"

for obj in $ do
(
format "% X_pos:% Y_pos:% Z_pos:%
" obj.name (formattedPrint obj.pos.x format:"1.11g") (formattedPrint obj.pos.y format:"1.11g") (formattedPrint obj.pos.z format:"1.11g") to:outputFile
)

close outputFile

and now it does its magic

formattedPrint too many times may slower the script , use filterstring to split a complete point3 value could reduce your calculative time
filterstring (formattedPrint obj.pos format:"1.11g") "[]," from it you will get all values , while use twice the time

Thanks, this is really helpful

I have one more question though (this one might warrant separate topic, but I will just write it here; might open new one if its against rules or needed)

Basically, I need to have those values represented as hex values to be able to patch binary file with them later. I tried to use Microsoft Excel to convert floats to hex, but format is not the one I need, and none of available VBA scirpts seems to do the job. Since formattedPrint seems to be able to export values in hex, how can I do this?

This calculator provides format suitable for work:

what I tried in MaxScript is this command:
(formattedPrint obj.pos.x format:”#X“)
But for seemingly no reason it does not output hex properly and just writes weird values like “X_pos:014000000000” in output.txt

maxscript has bit struct with useful methods
bit.floatAsInt <float>
bit.intAsHex <integer>
more info you can find in the mxs reference

( dotnetobject "system.single" my_float_val ).ToString "X8" should work as well

Sorry for bumping old topic, but
recently I got a chance to actually use this script in my projects, and I stumbled across weird rotation export from 3ds Max. I thought it export values in radians, but apparently it’s not.

So for example, rotation value of 30 degrees exported as 0.25881904, but rotation value of 60 degress will be exported as 0.5, while 120 degrees will be exported as 0.86602545. And this behavior actually rendered whole script useless – even if positions are correcly exported, values of rotations are messed up all across the output.

It will be more useful for me, if script just output degrees values as numbers (30, 60, 120, etc degrees) and then later I manually divide each value to 57,2958. How can I modify script to output degrees as numbers or at least in radians?

Edit: using this script I was able to make a modification, so now script outputs positions as hex and rotations in radians. However, I cannot no more output rotation value as hex…

outputFile = createFile "c:\output.txt"

for obj in $ do
(
rot = quatToEuler obj.rotation
xrot = degToRad rot.x
yrot = degToRad rot.y
zrot = degToRad rot.z
format "% X_pos:% Y_pos:% Z_pos:% X_rot:% Y_rot:% Z_rot:%
" obj.name (formattedPrint (bit.floatAsInt obj.pos.x) format:"#X") (formattedPrint (bit.floatAsInt obj.pos.y) format:"#X") (formattedPrint (bit.floatAsInt obj.pos.z) format:"#X") xrot yrot zrot to:outputFile
)

close outputFile

if I try to use this (formattedPrint (bit.floatAsInt yrot) format:"#X") it only outputs number, not hex value.