Minor (requested) update of my Quick Mask script. Now apply two-sided material to can render object's backfaces. I miss this feature before because usually I not work with open geometry. I hope this little improvement made the script more useful.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Chaos Group acquired ASGVIS
Chaos Group announces acquisition of Baltimore-based software developer and visualization firm, ASGVIS, LLC. Read the news at ScriptSpot or find more at Chaos Group official web site.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
MAXScript tip - Preserve sub-object selection with addModifier
Well, this is a coding tip and I beliеve its a nice and useful tip for all max scripters. It's about some limitation of addModifier function that does not preserve the sub-object selection that might be active in the modifier stack when adding the modifier.
Btw, it's a bit strange to see that this limitation of addModifier lie in Max from version 3 to the nowadays, nm, however, if we want to preserve the sub-object selection when we add a modifier, the help docs suggest to use the modPanel.addModToSelection() method. That's correct, but for non scripters need to say that we try to avoid modPanel interface in our coding always then its possible, mostly for good performance but and by other issues.
So, the solution that I have (and share it into Autodesk Area forum) to preserve the sub-object selection (without modPanel) is just to add Turn To Mesh modifier. That's it. Simple and effective.
Btw, it's a bit strange to see that this limitation of addModifier lie in Max from version 3 to the nowadays, nm, however, if we want to preserve the sub-object selection when we add a modifier, the help docs suggest to use the modPanel.addModToSelection() method. That's correct, but for non scripters need to say that we try to avoid modPanel interface in our coding always then its possible, mostly for good performance but and by other issues.
So, the solution that I have (and share it into Autodesk Area forum) to preserve the sub-object selection (without modPanel) is just to add Turn To Mesh modifier. That's it. Simple and effective.
Mental Mill for Max 2011
Autodesk offer a Standard Edition of mental mill® (MetaSL shaders creator) that run using 3ds Max 2011 license. Read the original news at MaxUnderground.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Spring simulations with Flex modifier
Ever wish you could create a soft body simulation on your mesh to bounce it around? 3ds max has had this ability for many years now, but it's tricky to set up and not very obvious that it can be done at all.
Read Fred Ruff tutorial here.
Read Fred Ruff tutorial here.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Merge By Layer 0.4
Well, a requested update of my recent Merge By Layer script. Now can merge multiple layers at once or select and merge multiple objects from different layers. Enjoy.
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