Dave_Black
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RE: Beginner BIPED question

Have you looked into the biped methods? For instance, if you type in biped into the listener, it will return all the methods for the biped class. Th…

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RE: Gathering names and creating files

Try: getfilenamefile (soundtrax.name(1)) And get back to me. If that doesn’t work, simply do this: stxName = soundtrax.name(1) getfilenamefile s…

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RE: Gathering names and creating files

Quick post: getFileNamePath getFileNameFile getFileNameType They each take a path string and return the portion you want. Easy! Look them up in th…

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RE: Gathering names and creating files

That would depend on how this SoundTrax plugin works. I took a look at the plugin website, and it looks like they have a good number of maxscript meth…

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RE: weld knots

You need to manually tell it to go to the vertex level: subobjectLevel = 1 -Dave

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RE: weld knots

stegge: setKnotSelection § 1 #[1,36] –1 is the first 36 the last knot splineOps.weld $ Well, you syntax is wrong in 2 places. The syntax for an …

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RE: weld knots

There are more spline menthods in the maxscript help file under SplineShape : Shape This one is what you want: setKnotSelection $ 1 #(1) setKnotSel…

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RE: Selection Filter drop down list – cfg?

I think he means the drop-down list that’s usually to the left of the bind-spacewarp icon in the main tool panel. I’m looking into it. It sounds like …

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RE: Skin Mod & Morpher Mod help

As for the morpher modifiers, you have two options. The first is based on an assumption, and assumptions are generally bad. The assumption is that eac…

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RE: Skin Mod & Morpher Mod help

$ and selection and $selection have some issues. If a single object is selected, then $ will return that single node. But if multiple objects are sel…

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RE: 1 box… more than one material ID's assigned… how to find its submaterial names

for i in $.material do print i.name The multisub material stores the nested materials as an array. –Edit: If you have nested multisubs you will ha…

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RE: Popup Menu… Is it possible?

If you are refering to the quad menus, then yes. Simply make the script as a macro script and put it in the UI/Macroscripts folder of your max install…

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RE: Minimizing/Maximizing 3ds Max Window

Perhaps a better solution would be to optimize what you are doing. Could you explain a bit what operations you are attempting and perhaps we can help …

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RE: Class parameters in scripted plugins

You’re reading the help file wrong. You’re probably talking about this section: parameters <name> [type:#class] [rollout:<name>] ( { &l…

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RE: creating xrefs in maxscript

Works just as expected. You have to make sure that you know the name of the object in the scene you are xrefing. For instance: Say I have a scene s…

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