MattRennie
@mattrennie
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RE: Change property of material on multiple objects

i would also modify the following: else ( for obj in selection do ( $.material.specularlevel = val ) to this: else ( for obj in selection do ( obj….

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RE: Save and Load transforms to a File

I didn’t think using something like ‘in coordsys parent $.transform’ would work – I thought they always came out in world space?

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RE: Save and Load transforms to a File

Are your objects in a hierarchy? Just applying their world rotation back onto them could become an issue if they are parented as you may apply a posit…

12 years ago
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RE: Select vertices from a shadow

You could take your plane and then simply extrude a face along the vector so that it penetrates through you ground plane then use this extruded objec…

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RE: Master Point Controller

I think the master point controller is only there if you’re animating – are you in auto key mode in your script?

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RE: How to make your own Timeline (NOT ENCRYPTED)

Personally I would go with option 2 and push the other values. I’ve had various instances where people would know how many frames their particular an…

12 years ago
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RE: UI toolbar menu not being created..

Prior to running your scripts on this problematic machine, are it’s menus the same as all of the other machines? Also have you tried getting it to sp…

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RE: Accessing fbx Exporter 2012 settings

I’m not 100% sure. It’s quite a while since I had a mess around with it. Should be simple enough to experiment though

13 years ago
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RE: Accessing fbx Exporter 2012 settings

It’s basically just taking the following a little further: I use a callback and window handles. Like I say, its a big hack!

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RE: Accessing fbx Exporter 2012 settings

I’ve had all manner of problems accessing the settings via maxscript for the fbx exporter for several versions now. I’ve ended up writing a gigantic …

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RE: Rotating the parent is OK, but children do not rotate. Why?

Oops yeah my it would need a quat – obviously hadn’t had any coffee when i wrote my reply!

13 years ago
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RE: Rotating the parent is OK, but children do not rotate. Why?

If you’re parenting your boxes to their corresponding helper and the boxes are offset from their helpers, why not just do: in coordsys parent myBox.r…

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RE: Planted Key -> Free Key

I know this is a gigantic hack, but maybe you could effectively do a callback to auto click the buttons rather than using the functions if they are gi…

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RE: Planted Key -> Free Key

Its a very long time since I used biped, but can you not change the tangency between your two ‘same’ keys so there’s no overshooting interpolation?

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