What you want is bone heat for max. Bone heat in Blender is a skinning methods that gives really good results by default. I’ll let the blender peopl…

Is the best way to sort the array before I store in the maxObjectTab array? Create a temporary array from the objects out of the maxObjectTab array, …

Yep, that fixed it. One cheeky little thing to point out though… the preset “Planer Rotate” should be spelled “Planar Rotate”. ;¬)

Sorry Paul, but I get a crash whenever I try to click a point in the viewport to create the helper. I’m using max 2008.

Thanks for the help guys. In the end, I went with phoelix’s method (as I’m not too familiar with structs) and it worked a treat. :¬)

Dave: I just discovered exprForMAXObject for the .getObject stuff and that saves me a lot of stringstream searching through the .printDetails() result…

No takers? OK… Well, what I’m doing specifically is trying to extract the details of a script controller; trying to create the code that will create…

I just tried it at my end and it works. You still get the dummy track in the trackview, but that’s it (besides your options of course). One other thi…

It seems that it’ll only work properly on closed shapes, but that’s more of a problem of max’s conversion of shapes to mesh. Would it perhaps be bette…

That’s great Paul, I was thinking about starting something like this but as you know, time is the enemy. The first suggestion I would have is being ab…

My guess is that the controller being referenced by the script controller is instanced between two objects… ;¬)