slight deviation, a max script that adds helpers to a spline shape so it can be manipulated when at the bottom of a stack without needing to go to into the stack and to subobject editing it came about as a "reverse" of the points to spline thread, i'll post it up once most of the bugs and random crashes are ironed out…
Ravenslayer: I decided to pick up max again, because of that script. (I mean there are tons of useful tools as well, but thats aside from the point) (Foaming at the mouth for that script)
Oh man, where were you about a month ago when I was doing tedious multiple mesh intersection snapping with Max's crappy snap tools. This is brilliant stuff.
Thanks. Yeah, it should work on Max 9. Im testing on 2012 right now. But I would assume/pretty sure it will have the same performance overall across all.
I've been implementing my own com server for max (going through mxs can be a bit of a faff :) ) to add addition dev tools anyway it paid dividends straight away helping to get a better algorithm for find what in or not in a polygon not matter what the depth or heirarchy. now onto how to deal with intersections, my brain…
matt, have you considered doing a 'save to library' option that exports a selection to a new max file and creates the thumb. could be a nice quick way of saving stuff as you work.
It shouldnt be too hard to lookup uv coords from a raycast hit in max right? I would probably implement this in unity which gives you uv coords for raycasts automatically.
Yes I saw that in the guy's demo he did, he was selecting a 1mil mesh in the UV editor in real time, very impressive. Autodesk should hire you to increase performance of their native UV editors in both Maya and Max.
It;s not all pretty pictures, spent the last couple of days creating a tool that generates a visual studio project for building max plugins (2010-2023) from a single simple xml file. #cuttingedge 😪
I was looking for a better way to rig quadruped legs. I found this link. Too bad that Max doesn't have a Spring IK Solver, so I started to write one. Just use a comma or semicolon. When saving the string check for comma's and if there is one just give a "No commas in the name warning." Personally, I use the built in Max…