one possible method would be to have an array for each material type, and use a case expression to filter the properties you wanted – bitmapmaparray …

number values are easy to cast into different formats without having to use execute eg – val = 1 1 val as string “1” val as integer 1 val as …

gc light:true should allow you to call the garbage collector without flushing the undo history if that helps.

you might find this useful too –

Hey Dr, ah, Thanks for that, I’ll look into it and report back. cheers!

here’s a thing – can you dynamically compile dlls that have referenced assemblies? this has worked fine with anything within the system namespace, but…

i guess currently you have to get used to restarting max when testing a custom assembly. :hmm: I copy everything from Visual Studio to a launch dire…

Hi Markus, Mike’s post was really helpful to me too, however I changed the top line to compile Visual Basic instead – fn CreateAssembly src = ( …

steev: i along with this slider i had spinner two-way wired to the slider in order to easily right-click on the spinner and re-set it & the slid…

That’s interesting to know steev, as I hadn’t seen any issues after installing the patch. This is because I dont tend to use two way connections, more…

I have had this on numerous installs of 2009, it is a known bug and documented in SP1. best to install the hotfix from the autodesk site and it should…

ZeBoxx2: Edit: I thought this question looked familiar – darn the weekends that was the fella! be damned my goldfish brain!

ta rich- yes, I was typing from memory so being monday morning I’m surprised it was just that!

looks like a few useful nibbles in there Rich, I’ll have to take a look at that. not tried any, but codeproject also has a few .net directory browser…