Wahooney
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RE: Visual MAXScript: Does it actually save time?

Yes it does I don’t know why Autodesk didn’t fix that in Max 8… I’m sure they must’ve noticed it by now!

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RE: How to create a surface starting from a cloud of points ?

Convex Hulls, I think that’s your ticket. A short summation of the brute force method: [ol] [li]Select 3 verts. [/li][li]Make a plane (not a plane o…

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RE: toggle a script on and off

I took the script a few steps further, not the toolbar button will check on and off to show the light status, and any lights that are created will be …

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RE: toggle a script on and off

Good grief!!! I didn’t even read your post! Read the first few then posted. That’s quite shocking!

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RE: toggle a script on and off

Rather than using the light multiplier, which you might be adjusting to values not equal to 1, just switch the lights on and off. macroscript lightsT…

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RE: Why $.min and $.max don't give the expected results ?

I find it better to back transform the object (set it’s tm to identity) get the bounding box then transform it again (set it’s tm back). Getting the b…

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RE: Macro Recorder question

Make one brick unique and do whatever you need to do to it. Select all of your bricks making sure you select the brick you edited last then run this s…

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RE: Overlay bitmaps

Thanks Bobo, I’ll check it out BTW, while I have your attention I see that the maxScripting environment is getting a bit of an overhaul, the mxs De…

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RE: camera view in a floating window possible?

Unfortunately this is difficult if not impossible to implement. You can’t have a functioning viewport that floats around, but you can have a floating…

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RE: Exposetm helper and rotation help

You’d be better off using: in coordsys parent tm = obj.transform

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RE: Script crash in 3dsMax 6

Would you be able to provide us with an LGL3 file (and whatever else is needed) so we can see the script in action?

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RE: chamfer edges modifier? easy to make?

There is a chamfer edges plugin that ships with max 7 SDK, but I’ve never been able to get it working. I’ll try again and then, if I get it working, I…

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RE: Need a script

I’ve had a look and it seems that maxScript doesn’t have direct support for ACI colours. What I could do is get a list of ACI colours and their corres…

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