If I have a 500x500px png image saved somewhere on my drive and I want to use it as a image for a button in a rollout, but the button is 200x200px wide and I assign the image to it, there are parts of the original image cut off because the image is larger than the button. Is it possible from withing maxscript to resize the file temporarily and assign it as the button’s image, while still keeping the original intact?
open source bitmap
copy it to bitmap with a different size
copy <source_bitmap> <dest_bitmap>
Copies the source bitmap to the destination bitmap. If the size of the two bitmaps is different, the image will be scaled to fit the destination bitmap.
use resized bitmap with a button instead of filename
if you don’t need a button exact functionality you can use imgTag instead. it has #stretch option
Could you write a small example of the script in action? I’d really appreciate it since I’ve pretty much guessed that’s what you had to do, but I didn’t have the necessary programming skills to actually apply it. All I was getting were error after error. I’m just not used with working with bitmaps through maxscript.
rollout dialog ""
(
local source = openbitmap @"file500x500"
local target
button bt width:310 height:310
on dialog open do
(
target = bitmap 300 300
copy source target
bt.images = #(target,undefined,1,1,1,1,1)
)
)
createdialog dialog
(i don’t have max right now to test it)
Tested it out and it works just like I wanted it to! Thank you very much You were very helpful
Happy 8000 posts Denis! Can’t be many people on this forum with that kind of contribution!