DanGrover
@dangrover
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Joined: Feb 14, 2024
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RE: How to do refractions in 3ds max a certain way

Sure thing, and you do it basically the same exact way. Shove your bitmap either in the environment, or in the diffuse slot of a material applied to a…

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RE: Inverting a spinner value

As an If statement, you can simply test if your given value is < 0 – if so, you know it’s a negative value. But multiplying by -1 will give you th…

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RE: Maxscript Tool Wishlist

But, to be fair, using containers is like heading to the Amsterdam red light district – exciting, full of wonder, and almost definitely going to give …

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RE: Physics in maxscript

To my knowledge, not built in. But almost all of those are maths based, on course – to simulate gravity you simply need to animate an object accelerat…

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RE: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

I agree that it’s very difficult to get something that looks all that great. The best I’ve found so far is using sub-rolls as much as possible. I find…

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RE: Just have looked at new features…

Mine comes pre-baked with a wonderful Bobo destruction! Looking at it now (look at all those global variable declarations! Why?! And why was I inte…

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RE: Just have looked at new features…

The calculations are what got me. :wip:

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RE: max script | change text shape using external array txt

If you use the OpenFile function and then ReadDelimitedString, you can store the values (“dog” etc) in the text file simply as strings separated by a …

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RE: is there any funcation in maxscript for arrays Subtraction

Surely that’s a question of design as much as coding, though? Afterall, the original post doesn’t suggest whether duplicates should be removed. I can …

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RE: Exit loop when bitarray stops changing

It may be worth have a While loop and omitting the ‘if’ test that currently exits the loop. You already have the variable assignment necessary, so it’…

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RE: Maxscript Tool Wishlist

I’m really into the idea of using Backburner for funky tasks at the moment. My latest ones have been using cmdjob’s to copy files locally (say, copyin…

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RE: Merge Objects In, Apply a Material…

EDIT: Crap, I didn’t see your second post. Ignore this! I imagine there are more computationally effective ways of doing it but… origObjs = objects …

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RE: locked files

broomy: Boom! perfect thanks! Cool! The thing is, gc() might fix the issue but the problem remains – something is happening with those files th…

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RE: locked files

I don’t know the actual cause, but if you put a gc() At the end of the copy script, does this fix the problem?

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RE: Possible to automate the creation of 1000s of objects?

Backburner still has to load up 95% of itself, so it’s only slightly less demanding in terms of loading and whatnot. What you could do, however… Ther…

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