All you have to do is re run the script again go to MAXScript –> Run Script … choose the script again and the floaters should be updated if you a…

Thanks a lot for your help. Better keep that gravity var a local – I just got used to the 9.8

I looked at it again and I figured out that I was opening it twice but I thought that closing it once would do the trick regardless of how many times …

yeah I know about the fact that I don’t need the openFile bit to use the .net script you described above. Basically the external file is for listing …

It works – well sort of. I am actually having problems closing the file after I do myfile = openFile (mypath) close myfile returns OK …

Thanks a lot for your help I’ll try this out. I’m not as worried about memory I run win 64 with 8 Gb ram so I have some to spare unfortunately what I …

that is unfortunate that maxscript doesn’t have a built in function for this. what would be the method for using .net to do this? I’m not really fami…

the problem with that is it can only read and write – I guess I can write a blank space for every character in the line but then how do I get rid of t…

Thanks a lot guys for all the info I am not familiar with python but i guess i have look at it if i want to do some serious scripting. by the way th…

I can’t find cmdjobs.exe in my max root dir. do you mean 3dsmaxcmd.exe?

the xml dependency setter seems to be working – well sort of. thanks for the info. I decided to switch the tequnique of IR map calculation where by I…

Thanks for your help, I’m going to check this out.