yep, makes perfect sense good luck – sounds like a nice project

I think that the normal at the barycentric center of the face is the same as what getFaceNormal() returns – so if you just need it at the center, you …

I may be mistaken – autogrid and such handily respect derived and explicit normals, so I hope I’m just missing something – but I think you’d have to d…

make sure you call sort() on tnFiles, just so the files are in the correct order (presuming they’re zero-padded), as sometimes files get collected out…

saving to PNG is easy enough – set the filename extension to “.png” 8-bit is the more difficult bit – have a play with the PNGio interface: showinte…

use a regular button and in its ‘on <button> pressed’ event, use getSaveFileName() or getSavePath() (see help file) to get the filename/folder t…

You could render your own text to a bitmap and use an imgtag to place it… but that’s craziness If max’s windows messaging was a bit mor powerful, yo…

The main problem is that you can’t define a global variable within the rollout definition scope (i.e. where you define the buttons, radiobuttons, etc….

just to add… beware of using the floats if you’re going to be printing to file… format “%” <float> only gives you so much precision. Compound t…

o_O There are time-travellers among us

you could set up a callback (that can be set persistent and thus saves with the scene) that re-establishes the change handler once the file is loaded……

hmm… I thought there was (one of the maxscript options in the customize menu), but I guess not. Try this… dialogMonitorOPS.UnRegisterNotification i…

try this thread, it should have information on how to set a job with dependencies when submitting (via the command line render) and how to set an exis…

I’d loop / recurse over the subanims, actually – much simpler, although there’s a (very slim) chance you’ll have an animated property that does not ap…

a la… c = $.position.controller.percent.controller Controller:Linear_Float ks = c.keys #keys(0f, 33f, 53f, 83f, 100f) for k in ks do ( format “% -&g…