MAXscript -- merge external .max file

Revel

A simple question guys; is it possible to merge (load) a max file into an opened scene using a MAXscript?

The idea is to bind it to a keyboard shortcut to call up a generic human scale mesh (example; scale_mesh.max that i keep somewhere on my C\drive) to check a proportion of a building/ doors/ props/ etc compare to default human size..instead of manually merge it in every time i need it in my scene.

Bryan Cavett

Yes it is possible. Look up "mergeMAXFile" in the maxscript help for how to use the command

You could also just save the reference mesh in your maxstart scene if you're always needing it

Revel

Thanks man, i manage to load my scale mesh into scene using this script;

mergeMaxFile (getdir #Scene+"\\scale_mesh.max")

I just barely have any knowledge about MAXscript, now just need to figure out how to make it "keyboardshortcut-able" (im not sure about that word either is exist or not. Ha~). Otherwise pre-merge the scale mesh to my maxstart file also inside my consideration list.

Revel

Ah! found a solution to this, after browse through few page back found this thread and got a way to make it keyboardshortcutable.

monster wrote: »

Open the listener, paste the text into the listener. Select the text, and drag and drop in to a toolbar. (Make sure you drop it onto a toolbar and not the empty space after the tool bar.)

After that you can set a hot key in the "Drag and Drop" category of the Customize dialog.

All works fine now! Never knew can do that, as simple as drag and drop

GeeDave

Sink your teeth into this bad boy:

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/primitive-maker

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miauu

You can try the Batch Loader script by Anubis. It's works very well.