Happy Holidays!

I wish you happy holidays!

Sound Alarm

I recently wrote a script for a friend. The idea was simply count-down counter which to play sound when the time expires. The script required VLC media player. Maybe it's beneficial to someone else so I decided to upload the script to my site. You can find it at the bottom of my scripts page.

Neil Blevins lessons

Neil Blevins offer a very nice CG education section on him web site and of course he still update it.

Neil's Quote:

Life is about learning, from your own experiences and from helpful people along the way. Everything from a 3d tip to larger topics such as composition and color theory, this is my area to give back to the graphics community.

While several lessons deal directly with 3ds Max, I've tried to keep discussions as software unspecific as possible, so you won't have to be a Max user to get something from these lessons.

3DKingdom

3DK (3DKingdom) is another tutorials site for omnifarious software (including 3ds Max). Well... immediately makes a bad impression that no tutorials sub-categories (differentiation at least in software would be good) and the site search does not work.

Translated Bounding Box 2

I recently wrote script named Translated Bounding Box which works fine on 3ds Max 2008 and higher. It's based on nodeGetBoundingBox() function (new in 3ds Max 2008). The function also available for previous Max versions through AVG (Avguard Extensions), but Dave ask me how to do this without AVG in 3ds max 9, so I wrote this cheat procedure snippet code. Maybe is not the best solution but I hope this help :)

for i in selection do (
c = snapshot i
c.transform = matrix3 1
d = dummy boxsize:(c.max - c.min)
delete c
d.transform = i.transform
d.pos = i.center
)

I think the "trick" is clear. I create a temp copy and reset it transform to can assign correct size to the dummy, and finaly align dummy to the original object. Well, maybe is good to optimize the code by turns undo off for temp object :)

for i in selection do (
local c
with undo off ( c = snapshot i )
c.transform = matrix3 1
d = dummy boxsize:(c.max - c.min)
with undo off ( delete c )
d.transform = i.transform
d.pos = i.center
)

P.S. -- Ultimately I decided to update the script and upload new version (0.2) at ScriptSpot.

whether tutorial-index.com is still alive?

Accidentally I stumbled on this site (tutorial-index.com) and I noticed that I can't open any tutorial link there. Hmm, don't like fishing site but more seems to be hacked. Did I missed something or the site is really just an empty shell?