ZeBoxx2
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RE: how to make a maxscript trial?

Well presuming it’s encrypted and never gets decrypted (and then the string removed) and re-encrypted, that would work fairly well. Keep in mind, tho…

15 years ago
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RE: how to make a maxscript trial?

it’s 5.10am and I wasn’t going to peek back in ’til the weekend, buuuuuuuut… Can everybody get back on-topic? The thread is clearly spinning into a …

15 years ago
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RE: render RPF channels not working correctly in Max2008?

how are you using that script in a network render? the script seems to call render() itself and takes the requested channels as the argument for that…

16 years ago
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RE: Looking for a way to do a "soft" camera clip

you could script something up that would apply the effect to all materials; can’t be good for calculation times, though as far as the g-buffers go… …

16 years ago
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RE: Looking for a way to do a "soft" camera clip

you’d have to use layers with the g-buffer approach, though, as otherwise you’d only be fading the nearest surface to, say, black… rather than what’s …

16 years ago
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RE: Is there anything like dropDownList in .NET?

yes, use ‘System.Windows.Forms.Combobox’; rollout roll_test “test” width:400 height:200 ( dotNetControl dno_ddl_test “System.Windows.Forms.Combobox…

16 years ago
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RE: OpenFlight access

go fig… I guess they decided to implement that stuff a bit non-standardly. The node itself, in Max, is just a Dummy Node. They store the parameters……

16 years ago
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RE: OpenFlight access

try ‘showInterfaces <node>’ or ‘showInterface <node>’ instead. Specifically, you might try… <node>.GetLodDistance() The documen…

16 years ago
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RE: loading custom toolbar with its scripts?

You could make a .MZP file that would extract (and run) all the appropriate .ms and .mcr files before your user loads the toolbar file (can’t load/dis…

16 years ago
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RE: How to access Last Rendered Image ?

no idea… I’m guessing ‘no’; our renderer uses its own VFB, but that’s all handled from within the renderer plugin, and no arbitrarily for any renderer…

16 years ago
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RE: How to access Last Rendered Image ?

can’t replace the VFB entirely – closest thing to it is popping up your own window after rendering has completed (using e.g. a #postRenderFrame callba…

16 years ago
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RE: How to access Last Rendered Image ?

I’m guessing “no”; the VFB is basically a view of a framebuffer, and if you need a different resolution, a differently sized buffer has to be allocate…

16 years ago
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RE: How to access Last Rendered Image ?

if you keep the bitmap in the same variable, you can call display() on that variable to update the existing display without opening a new window. a …

16 years ago
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RE: Maxscript auto-select convex edges

to start, you should probably grab data on which faces are connected to which other faces, get the faces’ normal data, and use that normal data to see…

16 years ago
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RE: Automated Material Editing

Diff.coords.blur = 0.0 (defaults to 1.0, I think) — Diff.coords.Blur_Offset = 0.0 (should default to 0.0 already) Similar for ‘Opa’

16 years ago
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