#((color 255 223 92)) GetPixels returns an array. xColor[1].r acesses the r component of the first index.

Yeah they don’t correspond. Also I don’t know what you mean with: “subobjects but actual geometries.” When you mentioned houdini, are you used to its…

copy-paste from max … fn beautify = ( return false ) ?

Hi Harry, I interpret the first three comments like you did. at time timedif is a statement that ‘moves’ max to the time specified. Pflow seems to …

I rewokred all of them. But this is used anytime you reference external = not pflow geometry. Georg

This one bugged me a long time you need re-get the postion at avery frame. something like: tStart = pCont.getTimeStart() as float tEnd = pCont….

Thanks. The maxfile(s) could also be inside a mzp. Georg

There are other ways to be slightly more clever Can you share these ways? Talking about sharing: I almost finished a library holding linear gradien…

There is an XML data base? Exist: Xindice: There might be others as well. The ‘drawback’ of those is that you use xpath and other xml-technique…

I’m guessing any of them. Is this correct? This is correct. The reason that hold me back from doing extensive DB stuff until now was: Not many peop…

I know this effect can be easily generated in Houdini… But sadly I need the same to work in Max If you need to use a bitmap to controll the values, …

What if the boxes are of different sizes? Who knows? Having a 1:1 pixel:object relation certainly eases the task. As soon as you get used to arrays…

simply by using an averaged value from a bitmap applied to it Either you roll your own “averaging algorithm”, wich is a nice execercise, or you scal…

Still needing help on the information transfer from Image Pixel value to Geometry if you guys have any experience on it. I just read that you referr…

Wahooney, Python can’t really do more then Maxscript in fact its the other way around more that python is limited to what mxs can do, were Pythons pow…