joconnell
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RE: The fastest way to get the normal of a selection of polys?

Yep – dumping the gc sped it up hugely! It didn’t seem to cause too many memory overheads either on max 2010 64 bit – not sure if much has changed sic…

14 years ago
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RE: The fastest way to get the normal of a selection of polys?

Actually just checked – I pulled this code from a forum that a lot of users post on. Here’s the last version of it! macroScript LeafConvert category:…

14 years ago
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RE: The fastest way to get the normal of a selection of polys?

I think the majority of people are using the script on the max aec trees or output from xfrog so we’re in the region of about 8000 polys or leaves to …

14 years ago
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RE: Advice needed for Batch exporting script

Heya! What it’s telling you here is that for the loadbipfile command to work, you have to load the bip file into the appropriate controller – like tr…

16 years ago
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RE: Max to After Effects Script

tbh I think it’d be a bad idea since a key on each frame is the only way to lock trajectories – there’s no guarantee that after effects tangents will …

17 years ago
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RE: wire parameters via maxscript

Never mind, I changed to a script controller and we’re all good – is there anything odd about the morpher mod from a script point of view that makes i…

17 years ago
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RE: wire parameters via maxscript

I’m trying to this too at the moment and I’m getting a “system error” message in the loop – I’m using it as a way to control hundreds of morph from on…

17 years ago
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RE: Question about comparing transform matrices

To run through your scenes and stop vray raybias errors in that case? Yeah it depends on what you’re trying to compare – you could do a broad level wh…

17 years ago
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RE: update particle flow in vp after its creation?

That’s a bit of a shame, I guess I’ll stick in an add and delete command at the end to see if it behaves. Cheers for the reply!

17 years ago
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RE: How do you run a script on each frame of an animation

Well, you’re pretty much doing it already since the loop you’ve got running is setting the key values – all you need to do is use the “animate on” com…

17 years ago
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RE: How do you run a script on each frame of an animation

Well, two possibilities would be to either do this as a baked animation script where you process your range of animation and as the script is calculat…

17 years ago
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RE: Pre Rotation

It’s a really stupid way to do things but might do what you want – what if you wrote a simple script to go through each bone and put a null between it…

17 years ago
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RE: Any reason why this code works with a camera not a null?

Cheers for that – I changed the order of the y and z axis, multiplied the y axis by -1 and set the x rotation to be 90 – x rotation and it locks on fi…

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