Stretch Spline

Stretch Spline is new Max script by Kostadin Kotev that get the length of all or selected segments of selected shape and create new spline with the same length.

Self Referencing Script Controllers

It's a known problem, I think. The recursion issue appear if we call itself from within Script Controller. The main subject of this thread is how to simplify the "bypass" that usually we made with Custom Attributies. So, I think its s'd be interesting subject for animators and mostly riggers, for scripters maybe too. Usually I suggest workaround that I call "proxy controller", as it's easy for understanding and following, but this time I decide to share and another approach that not so abstract as it looks. It's based on "at time" context which made self-call safety. Well, I'll not going to repeat myself, so just read the forum topic. Cheers!

The Seventh World Festival of Animated Film in Varna

The Seventh World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Bulgaria, is a successor of the famous festival from the eighties, whose last edition was in 1989, and which was one of the five most important festivals in the world organized under the patronage of ASIFA, was held between 8 and 12 September 2011.

After so many (22) years finally WFAF resurrected! As Bulgarian this event is very important to me. We suffered a period of 20 years with zero animation production in our country. Yeah, this industry was completely dead, and start to reborn in the last few years, relatively slow for now. Why did this happen is a large and political subject, and I do not intend to write about it.

Read more about into VarnaFest.org or the news in Vesti.bg (Bulgarian news translated with Google).

Undo SubObject Level

This is a macro script requested in the ScriptSpot forum. First to say, Kostadin Kotev already filled that request with his SubObjectModeToggle script.

My quick version (Undo SubObject Level) is a bit more simple, and probably not match strictly David request, but I beliеve it's more than simple and allows everybody to grasp the idea behind and calibrate the code to his personal needs.

The nut here is the Swap function I used to do 2 operations at once - store current SubObject Level (SOL) to a variable and restore the previous SOL state stored in those the same variable.

Well, too much words for so simple tool, right? I'm sure that after trying it you'll find out for a no time what it do and how it works ;) To test the script after running it once, open your Customize dialog and assign a keyboard shortcut, i.e. follow usual macro script installation procedure. And have fun ;)

Populate Terrain script

Marc Lorenz post scripted tool Populate:Terrain that assists in creating optimized terrain surfaces from shapes.

3D Environment Competition 2011 Winners Announced

The Vue 3D Environment Competition 2011 is closed and E-on announce the winners.

Ballooning file issue

A time ago I searched for "long time saving issue" and found 2 scripts (removeNoteTrack and removeMixerReftargs) in RangEmotions (RU forum) that solve this problem. And as I remember, I post about this somewhere in my blog. Now I see that this problem has another name - "ballooning file issue" (read notes about by Shane Griffith from Autodesk here) The 2 scripts that Autodesk offer to solve this are identical to previously posted into RangEmotions forum. However is, Denis Trofimov at CGTalk posted optimized version of both scripts and they're very welcome in case we met this problem again.

Forest Pack Pro review

Itoo Software's Forest Pack Pro review by Matt Guetta at MaxUnderground.