davestewart
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RE: CgTalk Maxscript Challenge 019: "Fun and Games"

Hey Dan, Thanks! Yup, always room for improvements. I really wanted to have the balls explode when you went through them, maybe with particles, maybe …

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RE: CgTalk Maxscript Challenge 019: "Fun and Games"

Awesome challenge! Here’s something I wrote last year, it took a good few hours, but definately under a day I think. Tested on max 8, will probably w…

17 years ago
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RE: Closing Bitmaps

Have you tried a garbage collection? gc() or gc light:true

17 years ago
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RE: filtering selection

Put the code into a function: fn updateMaterial = ( for i in mysel where superClassOf i == GeometryClass and (classof i.material) == Arch___Desig…

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RE: script runs second time, but not the first time…

Cool And in total agreement! Ironically, his rollouts are already prefixed! Ha ha CapitanRed: rollout myRollout “myRollout”(

17 years ago
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RE: script runs second time, but not the first time…

Ha ha, yes I can see the ironies there! Don’t worry, I don’t think that everything 37Signals state is gospel – quite the opposite in fact. I think …

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RE: script runs second time, but not the first time…

Probably best to work towards understanding the basics before worrying about best practices and hypothetical collisions! (but yes I know I started it!…

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RE: script runs second time, but not the first time…

Whenever you get a script that runs only the second time, you can be pretty damn sure it’s a pre-declaration issue. You’d actually benefit from putti…

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RE: script runs second time, but not the first time…

A couple of ways – either define the function after the rollout, or pre-declare the rollout: global myRollout fn testFn = ( if myRollout.Ye…

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RE: Saving and restoring viewport layout

Yeah – it’s pretty useful isn’t it. Glad you like it! Most of the command are accessible from the viewport struct. Just type in viewport and hit retu…

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RE: Saving and restoring viewport layout

Hey Eugenio, Yup – it’s got it’s foibles! I write this to do something similar a couple of years ago, also for max 8. See what you think, and feel fr…

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RE: Create Random Spheres without intersection

Cool thread! I don’t know if shrinking new sphere until they no-longer intersect would be an efficient option, but I thought it worth suggesting. Her…

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RE: Disable Selection ?

Look up Selection Filter and registerSelectFilterCallback in the help – you can set it up so you don’t select anything as you click in the viewport.

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RE: Extra columns of Check boxes in a Listview?

Are there no nice little free .NET controls out there that do what you need? I know that with AX there were quite a few that would do the job, it was…

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RE: optimized spline curvature

Um, yeah – I was just about say that, but Charles beat me to it

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