Hi everyone,
I am a new guy to max script and getting in to it slowly. I want to create a tool to create a spline between two picked objects and animate the vertices as a electric shock. The animation is happening but only for one vertex in the forloop. code is given below.
Rollout electric "Create Electric wave"
(
local startObj,
endObj
pickbutton pickObj01 "Pick Wave Start"
label startobj_lbl "---None---"
pickbutton pickObj02 "Pick Wave End"
label endobj_lbl "---None---"
spinner numVert "Num of Verts: " range:[0,100,6] type:#integer--
button create "Create Bolt"
button anim "Animate"
fn createSpline =
(
sS = splineShape pos:startObj.pos name:"animShape"
addnewspline sS
addknot sS 1 #Corner #line startObj.pos
addknot sS 1 #Corner #line endObj.pos
select sS
subdividesegment sS 1 1 numVert.value
select sS
allvert = numknots sS
for i = 1 to allvert do
(
setKnotType sS 1 i #corner
)
updateShape sS
convertToSplineShape sS
)
fn animateSpline =
(
local sS = $animShape,
animStart = animationRange.start,
animEnd = animationRange.end,
vertcount = numknots sS
animatevertex sS #all
animate on
for t in animStart to animEnd by 2 do
for i in 3 to vertcount-1 do
at time t
(
sS[4][8][i].controller = bezier_point3()
sS[4][8][i].controller.value= random [5,5,5] [-5,-5,-5]
updateshape sS
)
)
on pickObj01 picked obj do
(
startObj = obj
startobj_lbl.text = obj.name
)
on pickObj02 picked obj do
(
endObj = obj
endobj_lbl.text = obj.name
)
on create pressed do
(
createSpline ()
)
on anim pressed do
(
animateSpline()
)
)
createDialog electric
I haven’t read all your code carefully but I’m pretty sure you don’t want to reset the controller of each vertex for every frame:
sS[4][8][i].controller = bezier_point3()
you probably want to do this once before the loop.
I am basically trying to set the number of vertex from the spinner input and want to animate the vertices from 2 to total vertex count-1. I want to change the position of the vertex for every 2 frames in the animation Range. And forgot to add to ask how would i get the current position of the vertexes so that i want to move them only -5 to 5 in every axis randomly. Hope I made it clear what i want.
Thank you
each vertex has 3 controller values in/vertex/out, you just have to animate the vertex values. To animate from second vertex to count-1 you could use this
for i = 2 to vertexcount-1 do
(
at time t
(
k = (i * 3) - 1
sS[4][8][k].controller.value = random [5,5,5] [-5,-5,-5]
)
)
Ah Oh…Thanks Mr.Akram Parvez. That was a lot of help.