thanks paul, but unfortunately that doesn’t get the result i’m looking for. i’ve attached an updated max file to illustrate the desired final alignmen…

as you have it typed, the script works fine for me. try formatting it so the entire expression is on one line & see if it works. if so, you had s…

first off – you’re assigning variables that are read-only… “number” and “name”, change these to something more unique, like “numBones” & “bnName” …

hi martin, interesting that you’re seeing a complete map. here & in the studio it’s rendering just the diffuse as expected. are you using an earl…

yep – read through it twice! it’s BIG. anyways, props go to my friend chris c. in NY for figuring this out for me. he’s becoming quite the RTT guru s…

ok, so this is a longshot, but i’m running out of hair to pull out… in RTT you specify the color of the “element background” & it renders the UV …

yep, should’ve put that in the first post. that line was one of my many shots in the dark. i just retried it in case i had the render dialog open prev…

the rendere is default scanline. that antiAliasing:false line turns off the anitAliasing. if i call a standard render with that setting the edges come…

i’m assuming it’s AA. if i setup RTT padding to be higher than 2, there’s more overlap past the UV bounds, but it’s still aliased. if in the script i…

still banging my head against this one… in the maxscript help it says antiAliasing: <boolean> is available if the standard scanline renderer is…

thanks guys for the responses. yep, i just use it for quick layouts too. it’s handy when you need it.

how is the data laid out in your txt file? height = xx width = xx depth = xx or… xx xx xx