stuh505: how to get that one face? imagine the outline is not a simple convex shape. eek: what if the geo is not flat, what does the 0.1 extrude do? …

Concave outlines would complicate this. Is that a possibility?

Sure why not, you just need to find a place to store the original vert colors so you can restore them when the function is turned off. This could be s…

Very nice, I didn’t see anyway to get back to the listner when a script was open, maybe it could be a tab.

Max provides no way to decrypt a MSE to get it back to text again. A script can always call and execute a MSE with the fileIn() function. And yes it …

If I recall correctly there is no way to encrypt a MCR file only MS files. So convert the MCR to a MS, encrypt it and have the MCR execute the MSE fil…

Are the points equal distances from each other? like a geosphere.

Thanks Nebille, I’ve got another idea on how to attack this problem, now to find the free time to explore it. Hey Georg, don’t take the fun out of t…

The “****ing Help” can be found in Max at: Help > MAXScript Reference… Or on the hard-drive at: <maxDir>\help\maxscript.chm

There doesn’t seem to be a way to connect via script to the Material Override, but as EverZan pointed out, a render preset would be fairly easy and it…

Peterwildman: Thanks guys for the fast reply. I think I haven’t been clear on my question here is my script so far. what i want is a line of code t…

Instead of making a new material, why not just edit the existing one? Max object names are not unique identifiers, any number of objects can share th…

Any geo will work. Parametric primative or collapsed mesh. prettyPixel: So For each node you can know the various links. Thereafter I would li…

This thread looked like so much fun I decided to give it a shot. I’ve been toying with filling an objects volume with a network of geo. I’ve found th…

RyanT: I just tried your script and I have a few suggestions: [ul] [li]Consider wiping out the self illum keys on materials that have already been ke…