Hi all,
I’m trying to make a new scripted plugin to allow me to make a new type of node i can use as a bone. Currently I make these objects in max as a simple modified sphere with a few custom attributes via a attribute hodler.
however I want to turn this into a proper object which will also return a specific class it will return via classof.
I’ve looked at a few ways of doing this so far. The best appears to be starting like this:
plugin Geometry newBoneType
name:“newBoneType”
classID:#(0x50bb0ce0, 0x22d1c88f)
extends:boneGeometry –version:1
category:“myRigging”
autoPromoteDelegateProps:true
replaceUI:true
(
–blah blah
)
Now the issue I’m having, is i have my bits that get called when the user clicks which is fine. I essentially want to now replace the .mesh on my created bone with a new mesh which i can get from modifying a sphere.
Unfortunately setMesh doesnt seem to work.
I’ve tried setMesh myEditpolySphere myBoneGeo
but nothing happens.
Does anyone know how to replace the mesh on a bone object without converting to epoly and deleting old faces then attaching a new object (I dont want to do this as i then lose a load of my original attributes)?
replaceinstances bone.mesh (createinstance box)
replaceinstances bone.mesh anygeometryobject.mesh
if you want it as a mesh object you have to use simpleObject plugin class
if you want to have it kinda a helper it’s better to use scripted manipulator
but you have to understand that it will make the bone not a “bone object” anymore.
you will lose stretching for example.
delete objects
(
b0 = boneSys.createBone [0,0,0] [10,0,0] z_axis
b1 = boneSys.createBone [10,0,0] [20,0,0] z_axis
b1.parent = b0
b2 = boneSys.createBone [20,0,0] [24,0,0] z_axis
b2.parent = b1
replaceinstances b0.mesh (createinstance ChamferCyl radius:2 height:10 fillet:5 fillet_segments:3)
b0.objectoffsetrot = eulerangles 0 90 0
paramWire.connect b1.pos.controller[#X_Position] b0.baseObject[#Height] "X_Position"
)