thatoneguy
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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Hey! Whadya know! If I use imgtag instead of bitmap it’ll just give me two layers to work with if the top layer has an alpha channel. Even better. Th…

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Hi me again. How do you composite (using paste I presume) without overwriting the old buffer? example draw backgroundBitmap ‘plate’ imgtag.bitmap =…

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Found a little problem with the RLE approach. It doesn’t work if it runs off the image on the left or right side. A quick and dirty fix: fn drawb…

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

For my application it seems like the RLE method is fastest since most boxes are unique. One annoyance is the rollout.bitmap UI element applies a 2 pi…

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Ok one last question to add to this little discussion. How do I ‘draw’ words? Create a bitmap with my font’s alphabet and copy/paste ala the classic …

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Ok I have a performance question. Which is faster? setPixel? or pastebitmap? It seems like the first time I run it setPixel smokes paste by like 1…

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Ahhhh! Perfect. Thank you.

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RE: Best way to Draw Boxes in Rollout?

Well the easiest way to describe it would be to imagine there are a bunch of boxes on a floor and the dialogbox is a view looking down on them. It ge…

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RE: automatic max files render

There is an application which I can’t remember the name of it but it’s a 3DS Max file batch renderer. Which does just that. If you could find it. That…

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RE: Calculating distance particles have travelled

It wouldn’t be 100% accurate but how about: function particleTrajectoryToArray pf pIndex = ( pdist = 0 local prevloc for t = 0 to animationran…

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RE: How to Render selected frames using maxscript?

frames = #(4,6,25) for f in frames do ( rendTimeType=4 rendPickupFrames=(F as string) rendoutputfilename = (“C:\\ouput_”+(f as string)+”.tif”)…

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RE: How to Render selected frames using maxscript?

The Render() function is independent of the global settings. It’s equivalent to executing a command line render. If you want to do the equivalent of …

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RE: closing floaters?

If a floater gets docked to something I don’t think you can just “destroy dialog”. Don’t you have to unregister it first too?

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