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3D Studio Max
SCRIPT help!
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24 Jul 2005Ok I need help with a script or a place where I could get help
Here's the script I wanna make, it as to do with the snapshot function and the visibility track
first I need the snapshot to make mesh of a range of frame of an object (that change shape, can't use morph each frame have different amount of polys)
then for each mesh/frame add a visibility track with 3 keys with values of 0,1,0 and of course the 1 values is at the frame the mesh represent
I hope I'm clear enough if anyone knows how to do this please let me know -
24 Jul 2005So basically you want to simulate replacement animation?
Shouldn't be a problem....
You can access nearly any function available in max using maxscript....so the first thing you'd do is fill an array with the snapshots you want, at the apropriate frame.....and then animate the mesh.visible (or .visibility or whatever) value at the appropriate places in time.
That being said...do you have any maxscript background?
Overall...I'm not completely sure what you're after....but it doesn't sound hard at all. -
24 Jul 2005Here's what I want exactly
I have a glu mesh (that won't render with fR) that animates between frame 0 and 150, I want a script that starts at render and for each frame do the folowing, snapshotmesh the glu3d render it then delete it before going to the next frame that will do the same as this one until there's no frame to render. -
26 Jul 2005callbacks.removescripts id:#fRGlu
txt = "liq = $glu3D_01 \n"
txt += "snapshot liq \n" --snapshot my Glu mesh
callbacks.addScript #preRenderFrame txt id:#fRGlu
txt = "delete $glu3d_02 \n"
callbacks.addScript #postRenderFrame txt id:#fRGlu
T here's what I got so far, I'm trying to have a script that snapshot an object, render, then delete the new object, and I want it to do that at render time and for all the lenght of animation (all frames)
So far what I got will do it but the first frame will be render at the next one, the snapshot is done after the image render and I want it before, just have no idea how I tried with a prerender instead of prerenderframe but then I can only render one image otherwise on the second max crash. -
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28 Jul 2005T we're gonna need our own script section soon
Ok I got one working (well haven't done a full sequence but it works for 1 or more frame)
gc
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callbacks.removescripts id:#fRGlu
txt = "delete $glu3D_02 \n"
txt += "liq = $glu3D_01 \n"
txt += "snapshot liq \n" --snapshot my Glu mesh
callbacks.addScript #preRendereval txt id:#fRGlu
)
I need help for one thing, tell my script at this line txt = "delete $glu3D_02 \n" to continue on even if there's no $glu3d_02 otherwise I need to have one or I get a delete undefined
Now I need to have everything in variables and a button to select the object, a range time (this is tricky I want it to do the script only in the range time but been able to render frames before and after that have no glumesh present)
But dude it works
I'll start a long sequence later and let you know here -
29 Jul 2005I think there's actuall an "isdeleted" function you can call on an object...you'll have to look up the exact syntax in the manual...but you could do something like this:
if isdeleted $glu3d_02 = false then
(
insert code
)
That'll stop it from executing the code if the object doesn't exist.
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