Ahh that’s really useful! Thanks so much for the info. Not sure how I have missed that for so long.
Really nice set of tools Lo, thanks for sharing! I notice that you are automatically enabling and disabling accelerators within the .dll itself as pa…
Oh god… I feel dirty even posting this ‘solution’ to your first problem Basically, the render() command fires preRender before preImageViewerDisplay…
DanGrover: …for the sake of declaring global variables that you don’t really want to be global, there’s actually no need for the nested structures, …
DanGrover: …so instead of struct01.height, you could have struct01.struct02.height. Am I right so far? Yep, exactly. You can sort out all your st…
This is just one of the ways to use structs which I really like. It allows you to have one global value and access all instanced functions, values and…
Running fileIn on two scripts is like executing two scripts in a seperate tab in Maxscript Editor. Global values will of course be accessible, but the…
It sounds like you need to use FileIn instead: fileIn “other_script.ms”
You can also do it via DotNet: (dotNetClass “System.Environment”).GetEnvironmentVariable “UserProfile” You can also get info about lots of useful …
AlexMateo: …is there any way to show the mesh layers without hiding the others… This will unhide all layers with the word mesh. (I think that’s w…
This will loop through all layers, show any that have the name “mesh” in them, and hide any that do not: for a=0 to layerManager.count-1 do ( layer…
I looked at this control a while ago and on the whole it seemed very nice to use. Having it automatically create a tree from a list is really cool. T…
You can use dotNet to query the version of the max exe itself: versinfo = dotnetclass “System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo” myFI = versinfo.GetVersio…
This is the document I was referring to. It’s quite old now, but is still worth a read and has some interesting points:
denisT: the ‘wire’ controller performance depends on complicity of the used expression. ‘wire’ expression is mxs kind. so it might make ‘wire’ the…