Nice one! That’s much cleaner then storing the cmdline output stream to a tmp textfile

A bit hacky but you can use a commandline utility called ‘ffmpeg’ to get the info from any media file… or even transcode it on the fly… doscommand …

Blast from the past Max’s radiosity had a feature where it would automatically subdiv geometry to add extra details based on lighting conditions:

Check! While Kill trows an error I can call the .GetCurrentProcess() method which returns lots of info including the PID! Thank you! edit: For fut…

Yep, but it will looked tabbed! Another way would be to use some elaborate hold/fetch system that hold and fetches different scenes when tabs are sel…

I’m not sure what hack this program is using but would be cool if this could be invoked from within max… just add another session and make it tabbed.

Or just select an object you want to use as head and it will be attached automatically

You can have multiple threads on a single screw like so: It’s not much used in classical screws but you see it quite often in large diameter screw-…

And what about multi helix threads?

RayMeshGridIntersect.intersectSphere is broken as well, intersectBox still works so that can be used as a fallback.

I think you can do this easier, unless using maxscript is a requirement, you can fill a volume (your environemt objects) with small cubes using partic…

Not a ready made solution, but a quick grab from my messy toolbox. The one function prints out copy/pastable array string that holds all the splines …

I’ve no issues grabbing Nitrous with multipass, see attached image

Here is a ruff first version… run the script once after which you can hold the alt-key while dragging the timeslider to make is snap to keys. There i…