thatoneguy
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RE: Frame Numbering

Wouldn’t this be a LOT more efficient as a post-render script? Renderout. Rename files. Copy/Paste. Rename pasted files.

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RE: Blending Between Two Expressions

Two seperate objects dummies have an expression on them being driven by a third dummy. So as the first dummy approaches its limit I want to fade into…

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RE: mosaic map that scatters on all objects…help please

Oh you want the material to actually do something! Haha. No the script doesn’t do anything. It just generates the “map” in a code format to do some…

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RE: mosaic map that scatters on all objects…help please

ScatterObjects = #($Box01,$Box02,$Box03,$Box04) ScatterXWidth = 4 ScatterYHeight = 4 seed 11 ScatterArray = (for i = 1 to ScatterYHeight collect (for …

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RE: Alternative to return statement?

I was initially worried and started rewriting all my functions but then actually did some performance testing and found negligible at best differences…

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RE: two functions for a button ??

Also a great time to use a struct or array.

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RE: How to use theHold?

Hold saves a copy of the scene into memory. Pretty much like a “Save As” and then Fetch Opens it. It lets you save out a complete scene instance to …

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RE: read external file question

You’re making it even more difficult than it needs to be. in coordsys (matrix3 [1,0,0] [0,1,0] [0,0,1] $.center) (blah blah blah,…) EDIT: Scratch th…

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RE: read external file question

Oh yeah and usage would be like FileDimensions = getDimsfromFile “C:\file.txt” #Returns a Struct# FileDimensions.Width gives you the width FileDime…

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RE: read external file question

function getDimsfromFile file = ( struct dimensionsStruct (height,width,depth) dimensions = dimensionsStruct() csvfile = openFile file mode:”r” se…

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RE: Several issues with lightmap packer

That attached image is WAY too small. Quick question though. Are you pulling the baked bitmap from the VFB or the output path? The texture baking V…

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RE: Having a problem with intersectRay

This doesn’t fall under “more elegant” but it would be another way. Calculate a point along your ray on the opposite side of the bounds of your mesh …

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RE: Is there a recursion limit in maxscript?

Easy! [left]fn testFunc thevalue =[/left] [left]([/left] for i = theValue to 5000 do [left] ([/left] sleep 0.01 print thevalue [left] )[/…

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RE: Collecting objects creates slow downs

Hmmm I don’t think I can be of any help. I’m not familiar with any of the components of the script. My only ignorant suggestion would be to explore p…

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