davestewart
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RE: Problem with applying Chunk pivot orientation to particles

Hey Patrick, I had a quick look but I probably don’t have time to tinker properly (shame). One thing I definately would do would be to create a new …

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RE: Problem with applying Chunk pivot orientation to particles

Hmm… you may need to explain again what you are trying to achieve. I looked at the mesh pivots, and they are all aligned to the world XYZ, so I’m no…

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RE: problem using "Case Of" expression…

Hey again Carlo, An index basically means “a number within a range”, so in this case I was referring to your range of 1 – 12. Indices are always integ…

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RE: problem using "Case Of" expression…

Hi Carlo, I’m not too sure what you’re aiming to do with the letters (is this for keyboard input of something?) but you might like to use strings, not…

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RE: What development folder do you use?

It’s a pre-emptive strike – I’m going through all my old scripts at the mo, so I’m sure I’ll come up with some annoyances in the next day or so! I th…

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RE: Grow a structure from metal plates

Excellent stuff! If you like this sort of thing you should also take a look at Actionscript and Processing. Really easy and fun to build generative a…

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RE: Grow a structure from metal plates

Post back what you come up with Samuel, I really like this kind of project! Cheers, Dave

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RE: Grow a structure from metal plates

I think it depends what kind of animation you want, and the scale of the scene. It could be really fun to define some behaviours and let the script d…

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RE: Grow a structure from metal plates

Maybe post some diagrams; it’s a bit difficult to get a handle on what your describing from your description

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RE: Passing a function into another function?

Actually, omitting return is best-practice in MaxScript, as behind the scenes C++ is performing a try/catch. So… fn addNumbers a b = (local result …

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RE: Passing a function into another function?

I didn’t think this would work either, but it seems to be quite happy: ( — caller function fn test arg = ( local scopedVariable = (random 1…

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RE: Shelllaunch issue

Sounds like a bit of a faff if everyone has to create a text file for themselves. Using the max ini file would be much cleaner. (I couldn’t resist ha…

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RE: cant get my head around pickPoint

Hey Abhishek, Just a quickie, but you could simplify your points calculation in this bit: abyjoe: new = [0,0,0] new.x = (n*p1.x+m*p…

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