shibumenon
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RE: Ring conforms to the circumference of sphere

say sphRad is the radius of the sphere and posZ is the distance of the ring when travelling along the axis of the sphere then the value squareRoot(sph…

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RE: Loading/unloading of objects per frame?

you could use a callback (which basically means detecting any desired event and then executing a function when the event occurs. ) In this case you …

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RE: 3Ds Tetris

haha … awesome, mate ! thanks for sharing

16 years ago
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RE: error comparing distances

could you paste the results your listener gives for dist1 and dist2

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RE: Get length of a Biped bone?

A cheat to get the length of the wrist bone would be to temporarily change the number of fingers to 1, in the figure mode Then you could easily find t…

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RE: Creating a new vector between two vectors

am not sure I fully grasped what you mean, but this is what I understand from your post: you need a new vector AD to be created angularly between AB …

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RE: detect duplicate objects' name

I had written a simple script long back which does what you want (print onto listener) : You can go thro the script and make changes to get it work…

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RE: Script will not work after a random time…

WHich version of max are you using? You shouldn’t use the object name directly. Create a variable within the script controller, assign that variable …

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RE: Select overlapping copies

Among the duplicates in the scene, if the original object happens to be the one created/imported/merged first, then it should be easy to find him.

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RE: Select overlapping copies

You could write a script which finds all the objects with same vertex count occupying the same position in world space. But then, this will also selec…

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RE: Common causes of memory leaks?

well, for starters, the most basic type of memory leak I found was if you simply use a loop to open a file, and reset max, and gc !! (I was opening th…

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RE: Next MeditMaterial Free Slot

If by free you mean a slot whose material is not applied to any object, then you could use this : theDepNodes = #() theFreeSlots = #() for i = 1 …

17 years ago
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RE: Dumb question – changing an object's material at a given frame

You could also create a preRender callback function as per your requirement, and add it to the callbacks: callbacks.addScript #preRender [color=maroo…

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RE: Rig transfer from Maya to Max

never mind … I’ve decided to not go down the .fig file route … its too unchartered a territory! Using distances and setTransforms seems to be much bet…

17 years ago
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