Suppose as it’s my idea I better think of something as well…

I’ve used the renaming method before but found it doesn’t always work… Backburner seems to have weird ways of naming strips. I thought perhaps using …

$Camera01.target.position works for me. Silly question, is it actually a Targetted Camera or a Free Camera? What error message are you getting?

You can also use wildcards. GetFiles = “C: est*.png”

JHN: When do you know you’re a technical artist: “You, most of the time, overcomplicate the obvious”. -Johan Haha, will remember that one! Bee…

Or I could simply put on my dunce cap and realise I could do this all with Find Target instead! much quicker and easier!

My image will be about 8000×6000 pixels, so yes I guess I might run into precision problems. I think I might be able to do it without doing any compl…

Cheers for that. Something appears to be wrong with cgtalk at the mo…

I’m working on a still image with a few thousand particles in. I need to keep a log of the positions of the particles on the render. My particles are…

I’m not 100% sure what you’re talkinga bout but you should be able to do something with blobmesh and pflow to do what you want I think. Spawning parti…

Why not use PFlow, Shape Facing, you can do exactly this without a need for scripting? You can restrict it to one axis.

Nice, but we use 3dsmax 9, so would have been a headache to deal with anyway, but will bare it in mind next time. Thanks! Has anyone used it, is it f…

Yeah I did. I had to write my own Render script to make it work. Luckily the object envolved was a Cube so I could disable all the other modifiers ma…