just to answer the original question (i hope this wasn’t mentioned as i only skipped over the thread ) you can get the output of format into a strin…

stev: nothing special you need to do for modifiers really, as they appear as subanims, so if you recursively loop through the subanim tree of the obje…

yes you have to do something special for CA’s as they are not part of the subanim hierarchy you can check every subanim that you loop through for cus…

looks good, though if you ‘format’ such a large code block at once it may become a bit of a hassle to manage all those variables. it doesn’t happen w…

i read that maxscript leaves a copy of the old string in memory whenever you add something to it. my tests have shown that this is very true… this wi…

to store the old value, if you need it, cleanly and efficiently as a variable inside the script controller you can use this.setConstant “varName” val…

you can write one in mxs, except for some things that you can’t access without the sdk for example you can’t access custom falloff curves, so you hav…

this still amazes me, why do you have to write your own tools(max8, true for me here) or use hacks(max9) for loading skin data when it’s all there in…

here it’s much of the same maxscript is used for everything except performance code and things that are impossible to write in maxscript (controller…

it’s interesting to see that all the riggers here seem to come up with the same solutions! brad, i didn’t know there was something like this in your…

well not they are not the same really, you should do what bobo suggested as some of the methods are different, maybe save the listener output to a fil…

do mean to set a position offset for the constrained object? this is not directly controllable from within the constraint like in maya, however you ca…

i think this book is very good for starting out with maxscript: 3ds Max 8 Maxscript Essentials it’s official autodesk material, and covers a lot. i …

wahooney, i think in an earlier test of mine it worked, i don’t have the code anymore though disabling and re-enabling keyboard acceleration is much …

Hey guys, i’ve been trying to send an email with .net, but i’m stuck because the smtp client class needs some sort of credentials object to connect …