davestewart
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RE: Maxscript basic question

Change rotate $ rotRand to rotate obj rotRand. $ refers to the entire selection, whereas obj in this case is the iterator that refers to each object …

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RE: Any ideas on animating splines??

If the splines you’re animating are only 2 points, I’d probably tackle it aligning the pivot point to the first vertex, then animating the object’s sc…

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RE: A button that makes animation

Ah, Ok, sorry! Of course, if you mov ethe box without Auto Key on, ALL your keyframes are going to move (check it out in the track view). Perhaps yo…

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RE: A button that makes animation

Yup – you need 2 keyframes for an object to move, so you’d need to run the code twice, moving the box inbetween. Are you familiar with basic animatio…

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RE: A button that makes animation

Well you can do this with the main max interface using autokey! But if you want it in code: addNewKey $.pos.controller slidertime

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RE: Optimization ideas needed

If you haven’t already seen from the link above, I’ve updated my TimeStamper struct. It provides a set of useful methods and properties for all things…

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RE: Optimization ideas needed

Well, here in London it’s a bank holiday (so no work), and it’s pissing down with rain (so no play). I’ve also been working on a timestamping / bench…

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RE: Optimization ideas needed

OK, 7500 sounds like a lot! Well I don’t have much experience with large datasets, but I would suspect that the problem might lie in the fact that as…

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RE: Optimization ideas needed

I did a quick test with spheres, and replaced your loop code: ny.transform = pos[i] meshop.attach olleaves ny deleteSourceNode:false Taking out the …

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RE: execute and variable scope

Try this: files = #(“C:\\Temp\\sphere.jpg”, “C:\\Temp\\box.jpg”) mapTypes = #(#diffuseMap,#opacityMap) mat = meditMaterials[1].material1 map = mat.d…

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RE: execute and variable scope

3rd Dimentia: but I don’t know if I just haven’t hit the right combo Use the macro recorder to check the expression Plus: there’s always setPro…

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RE: execute and variable scope

Alright, Sorry about that. It was meant more to be an illustration on what you’d code than actual code. You’d also need to take off the trailing quo…

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RE: execute and variable scope

Hey Chris, The reason why your execute is failing is because “chk_”+(MapTypesArray Array[j]) is resolving correctly to chk_ambientMap for example…

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RE: Animating frame Output Size…

Ah, I see now. Quicktime has successfully been doing this for years: There’s some software here as well, if you think any of it might be useful in o…

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