thatoneguy
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RE: Problem with Visual Maxscript in 2010

Weird. Well report it as a bug. I doubt anyone tested the visual maxscript editor during the beta.

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RE: New maxscript features about SQL Database access in max2010??

.NET is all you really need. But that’s been around for several years now. The big limitation is still that you can’t cast a .net DataArray into a M…

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RE: Object sequence rendering

I assumed “Object Sequence” meant an animated object being swapped out. You could use XREFs and then write a maxscript to turn on and off specific xr…

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RE: Script to arcive and mail?

DosCommand ShellLaunch and HiddenDOSCommand This is going to be a command line action not a max action. Unless you use .net somehow.

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RE: How to calculate an object's speed?

Yeah that’s why I would advocate ticks on each side of a frame if you need the ‘instantaneous’ speed at that frame. In the above scenario if you do p…

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RE: How to calculate an object's speed?

To get the exact speed you would need to find the vector for the first derivative of the transform slope for each axis. That sounds like a lot of wor…

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RE: Is it possible to modify a script through a Rollout before running it?

Sounds like you want a dynamic rollout then. If you want a dynamic rollout you use the execute command and a stringstream stringvar = stringstre…

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RE: Is it possible to modify a script through a Rollout before running it?

Another idea that’s a little more like what you want would be for an ini file. But a variable seems like a better alternative.

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RE: fullfilename + "localtime as string" how to write?

I’m looking at you like that because you forgot to delete the file afterwords.

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RE: More than 10 files in MXS editor

has anyone ever figured out how to open two editors at once?

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RE: 2010 Viewport Redraw Issues on Object Creation

I can confirm. I can even go a step further. If you maximize your perspective neither draws.

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RE: what's wrong?

Actually you can cast a point 3 by just taking in 3 variables. try running this in your listener: bob = box() bob.pos += (point3 3 3 3) I suspect …

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RE: beginner questions on nodes

I’m a big fan of try/catch in these sorts of cases. Since a classof (light target node) == geometry as well. I just throw a try/catch try(getpolyco…

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RE: beginner questions on nodes

It’s not for performance it’s mostly just to keep things tidy. If you have a variable that’s called “StringVar” and another script uses a variable ca…

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