Thanks, that will do. I didn’t know that the FFD control point properties can be isolated that way.

very good, thank you! Since we’re discussing that, what’s your opinion on disabling the command panel vs. the whole max window, using windows.getmaxh…

No, I’m not. It’s likely that it wasn’t. Now I see it. “Command Panel”. Any ideas how to get around that? Speaking about localized versions of max, …

yes, you can search for examples here. The problem is that max will crash if you change objects in the viewport(?) from a separate thread.

I used to be obsessed about optimizing/shortening code, until I realized that in many cases there is no point. In situations where performance doesn’t…

I edited the previous post with some example code from a dialog of mine, not sure if it is useful…

About the issue of rollout items loosing their state after adding/removing them when building a dialog similar the the render dialog, with tabs. What…

Don’t use getFaceMaterial. Use polyop.getFaceMatID. Why is one faster then the other? No idea, but that’s how it is with Maxscript.

I was thinking about sorting vertices too. But how? By distance to some point in world space? By UV mapping?

you mean object names, not variable names? cylinder.name=“cylinder” + (i as string)

I’m not an expert on copyright, far from it, but here is what I think. Unauthorized use of code someone posted in a public forum is a copyright viola…

I don’t like either. At least search seems to be more reliable than with the windows helpfile. But the html help is stupid slow. I guess google has to…

Hey Eugenio, I’m looking forward trying your code but I’m on vacation right now and cant test it with my laptop. Will give it a run in a few days. For…