By the way, big thanks for that. I just used it in an ellipsoid plugin. So simple and yet, I probably would have written mountains of code before I wh…

RappyBMX: about orionflame here’s their website: and here’s a picture (from their website) Look up “Creating Icon Bitmap Files” in the maxScrip…

RappyBMX: hy how can i make a few buttons in the selected viewport ! like when i’m in the perspective and i wanna have some buttons/text in the ri…

this is true… even faster (and easier to read).

Actually, using selection with a for loop, you don’t need to test count or anything because the loop won’t be run if the array is empty so you get: …

Are you asking how to capture the value on right click or how to calculate the distance? If you’re asking about the calculation, you use exactly the c…

If I follow you right, you need to change the classID. This is unique for every plug-in so if you change what the plug-in extents, you need to change …

I don’t have max open right now, but can you use the same map in all the slots and play with the output for each? Don’t remember how much control you …

A bitmap plugin works on an image file that sits on your hard drive somewhere. What’s happening when you run your plugin is that you’re editing the or…

A couple of other things. Do your best to not have that much repeated code. I’d put all the “additional” box making into a function that looks like: …

execute (“move $Element” + (j as string) + ” [20,0,0]”) It’s a very annoying element of maxScript, but the only way to access an object by a concaten…

And look at “in coordsys parent” too. That may be all you need.

Good stuff Paul. Funny, I was just about to post in the python thread about how to do something like this using python.

my max is tied up in a big render right now, but I’ll give this a shot tonight.

I have no experience with dot net controls, so the answer may lie there, but you can do this in maxScript using a custom bitmap. Look at the how to… d…