Wahooney
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RE: Theres gotta be a way….

I can’t give you a precise solution but you’d probably be best off finding the transform matrix of the face, getting the position is easy, rotation is…

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RE: Aligning pivots – how?

Pretty much, yes… Then I would suggest that you reset your xform, it’ll make any future modifications more predictable.

21 years ago
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RE: Aligning pivots – how?

Doing this type of thing in maxScript ain’t easy but it is possible… The way I understand it nodes have two transform matrices, pivot and object. The…

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RE: Create Targeted Camera from Values in a Text File?

What you’re gonna want to do is use a tokeniser of some sort. I would use filterstring() for this one. myFile = OpenFile “Cameras.txt” // open the …

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RE: How to check if string is "safe"?

If you only want to test if a string is valid do this: validString = “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ” checkString = “ThisIsAVa…

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RE: Need help locking objects with script

You do it thusly: setTransformLockFlags selection #none — removes all locks setTransformLockFlags selection #all — adds all locks setTransformL…

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RE: How to find the angle betwen two vectors

There is actually only one angle between two vectors (in relation to eachother). You can get that value like this: ang = acos (dot vec1 vec2) Note t…

21 years ago
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RE: attaching two splines via script?

The only method I’ve found is addAndWeld it takes three parameters spline 1, spline 2, weld distance threshold – attach a single spline addAndWeld sp…

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RE: color mode conversion?

Any true COLOR (ie. you got it from wirecolor, created (color 255 128 0), etc.) has HSV in it already. eg. myColor = color 255 64 128 myH = myColor….

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