hey folks!
I gotta super simple question, I’m sure it’s just a matter of me not knowing the proper syntax in maxscript.
let's say I've got a simple loop
for i = 1 to 20 do (
and I want to do something every 2nd loop. In every other scripting language I've encountered, I could simply write an if statement like...
if i%2 then (
...that basically says "if [i]i[/i] is divisible by two, then do the stuff". maxscript has gotta have something like the % operator, but obviously the above code doesn't work, and I can't find any alternatives anywhere... Any ideas?
thanks guys!
There are two ways of doing this, depending on whether you wanted to do anything at all on the other half of the loop iterations:
for i=1 to 20 by 2 do ()
--This executes the loop code on every other loop iteration
for i=1 to 20 do (if (not ((mod i 2)>0.0)) do ())
--this executes the loop code each time, but the specific statement only on every other iteration
Hi,
MAXScript doesn’t have a % operator like C++ does.
It can be done like John suggested, however the second for loop could be written like so:
for i = 1 to 20 where mod i 2 == 0 do …
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I could be wrong about this, but I thought I remembered Larry Minton saying to avoid direct comparisons using floats, as they will sometimes evaluate unpredictably. In other words, (0.0==0) will sometimes evaluate as false. Its been a while, but I think I’ve experienced the problem myself. I wrote the code above to avoid the possibility of this behavior.
Does this sound familiar to anyone, or am I remembering this wrong?
cool, that’ll do the trick! As usual, maxscript needs a workaround for something every other language can manage easily…
anyway, thanks guys!
