Coding, Scripting, Shaders

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[Maya] Context based poly fill Helloo,so I wanted to release this script that I was working on last year.It's a poly fill for Maya. I'm sure most of you know the concept.Some hings that I aimed to accomplish:Quick and easy filling…	0 Last	Nico0307 Feb 2021
Color variation by id shader - [Maya,Arnold] I wonder if there’s some way to change the color of the meshes with variation based on the id or influence of another object or other characteristic, but only with one material. I notice this ca…	10 Last	dlz Feb 2021
Tessellation cleaner : 3D mesh optimizer for 3ds MAX Hello everyone ,I want to share my script here with you. Easy to use script, tool for for 3ds MAX designed for reducing, optimizing polygons count, after using tessellation modifiers on geometr…	0 Last	fuzzygraphics Feb 2021
3dsMax - hair Card Tool wip Hello.I started to update my old tool for hair card creation in 3ds max. I am planning to release it but first I want to ask if is possible to change the GUI. I got tired of the default max's rollout…	3 Last	mihail.lupu Feb 2021
File Format Compressing Faces? Hey all! so I'm making a set of mod tools for a couple of video games as the tools are either non existent or outdated and no longer work on modern systems. I'm starting off with a simple converter f…	15 Last	Klunk Jan 2021
MaxScript Cleaner issue Hi, I have a Cleaner maxscript, it was working fine but the next time I started Max I got an error saying '-- No ""+"" for undefined' Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you!	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2020
Christmas Primitive I had a bug (which only revealed itself when moving to an AMD processor) :anguished: :) so I had to recreate it in mxs and here it is for anyone to have a play with/improve/butcher/laugh at :)sorry I…	3 Last	Klunk Dec 2020
[Maya -Melscript] Animlayer tab query Is it possible to query what animation layer is selected, and return it's name? (In this case, "orange")	1 Last	StephenVyas Dec 2020
Sculpting 3ds max Hello Everyone! I'm looking for shaders/bump like a picture.Thank you in advance.	0 Last	Pablo89k Dec 2020
how can i do a jittering and shifting outline Hi, I use Autodesk Maya, I want to know how I could make the outline of a model move constantly in order to more accurately simulate a hand painted animation done with a caligraphy brush as oppose…	1 Last	throttlekitty Nov 2020
[Maya] Toggle Pan/TrackTool Hotkey hey guys...I use a tablet to model in maya, and its very hard to me to use the default alt + mmb to pan the viewport....I changed the default Track Tool to the letter "S", however, when I press the "…	5 Last	Flmn Nov 2020
Get Editable Mesh Normals? Hi guys, I'm programming an exporter and have run into a problem with getting the normals. For a box that's an editable mesh I have no problem getting the 8 vertices and the 12 faces (2 triangles for…	2 Last	noekk Nov 2020
Looking for Sppaint3d plugin for Maya? Hello everyone!I am looking to find the Sppaint3d plugin that was available on HighEnd3D.com but the site appears to be down.Is there any other place where I can find this plugin?Thanks in advance!	3 Last	franciscoaliberti Nov 2020
[Maya][Python] My Procedural Scatter Nodes Hi guys. I've been adding some procedural scatter nodes to my 3Gen plug-in for Autodesk Maya. What do You think? Any feedback would be appreciated.Youtube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s…	2 Last	Rayterex Oct 2020
Python Code Check - Maya Hello,I am learning python with Maya. The problem I have with the following code is that the shader isdeselected when objects are selected. If I reverse command order, objects are deselected when sha…	2 Last	haiddasalami Oct 2020
[maya] Get material order from mesh Hey guys,Sorry- I'm aware this has been asked a hundred times over, but I'm struggling to find a way to get materials from a mesh fast and it doesn't help that I'm very new to pymel. I'm trying to ge…	1 Last	neilberard Oct 2020
MAXScript out geometry data to text file multi meshes Hello.I'm Trying to code geometry data to .txt file. For 1 mesh my script working but for 2 or more i have an error. "-- Unknown property: "name" in $selection"Can anybody help me with that?tmesh = s…	10 Last	PSok Oct 2020
Procedural checker tiles shader (Blender) Hi folks, few week ago i have started my new personal project but recently i had to stop it for work commitments, anyway recently in my free time i have make this shader need for my personal pr…	0 Last	nikFrn Sep 2020
Poll Dev only? Or releases too? Should this forum section be only about development, works in progress, feedback? We currently ask for tool releases to be advertised in Technical Talk. But that's starting to creep in here.Are …	2 Last	PolyHertz Sep 2020
3DS Max Car painter Hello; In 3DS Max I have a scene with a hundred Civilview cars. A civilview car has a multi/subobject material defined, for this material the 9 first Submaterials are the body car painting. F…	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 2020
Procedural Grass with my plug-in for Maya Hi guys. I made procedural grass with my node-based plug-in. What do You think? Do You have any ideas for the tool? Here is the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMR779k-2OM&ab_channel=N…	2 Last	Rayterex Sep 2020
[Maya][Python]How to select polygon components by other object hi, I wanna search for intersecting faces between two objects, and then delete or select them.I know Boolean can be similar, but the results I want is to avoid…	0 Last	babybus Sep 2020
Maya Cutter Hi, I just played with Maya bool functionality to help me, modeling is even fasterhttps://youtu.be/KWtHW-xoApM	5 Last	Joopson Sep 2020
[Maya][Python] Wrote procedural truchet material in Maya Hi guys. I wrote procedural truchet material. I hope it can be useful. Here is the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhKUNW6ywQ	0 Last	Rayterex Sep 2020
PYTHON Highlevel intro to Python in Maya (cmds, Pymel, Openmaya 1.0 & 2.0) Hello, Here is a video I made discussing the various types of Python available in Maya. And when to use which API.A lot of people still use cmds, and haven't discovered the advantages of Pymel yet. H…	5 Last	poopipe Sep 2020
[Free Application] I wrote procedural Images / Textures Generator. It is free for download Hi guys. I've been working on this app for quite some time. You can check youtube demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_BxQzOWwfM) or download app directly (https://gumroad.com/l/LgUR )	0 Last	Rayterex Aug 2020
(MEL) Reset Value of floatSlderGrp? float $CBVal = `getAttr ($operation[1] + ".fraction")`; floatSliderGrp -label "Corner Bevel " -field true -adjusta…	3 Last	onionhead_o Aug 2020
How to get the input from commline control? Hello guys, I have two buttons and one commandLine. What I want is, assign the input value of commandLine to a variable, and take a return value from function as the display of the commandLine’s…	1 Last	Deadly Nightshade Aug 2020
(MEL) how to build UI that list groups and children ? Im trying to build a UI for my script that list Groups and children similar to Outliner. The issue Im having is that I just needs a list where users can add items to the list. Not a g…	2 Last	Deadly Nightshade Aug 2020
Preserve Edges python command Hi friends, I have a question, in Maya there are a special option in OpenSubdiv controls named UV boundary smoothing how i can to select the "preserve Edges" like a python command to make a transfer …	1 Last	Deadly Nightshade Aug 2020
Unity: Unlit material Shader that recieves shadows I found a previous solution which was a custom shader that works exactly how I want it to, however, the shadows that are cast on to the object are completely black with no way to adjust them. I have …	3 Last	Mehran Khan Aug 2020
PyMel[Maya] accesing hue in color I'm developing a tool regarding shaders in Maya and I'm learning pymel to do it (until now i rely in maya.cmds and mel). I like pymel a lot but i'm having trouble to understand the hierarchy of nodes…	4 Last	dlz Jul 2020
reassigning materials in an fbx file with python I've been struggling with this on and off for a few days now so I thought I'd ask here on the off chance. Using the python bindings for the autodesk fbx SDK I want to take an object with m…	5 Last	poopipe Jul 2020
Is that possible to add a button to the System.Windows.Forms.ListView with maxscript? I created a dotnetcontrol listview in a rollout, and I want add some click event for each list cells. Like the event on pressed do for button, when press the button, executing some other functions. …	2 Last	monster Jun 2020
ShaderFX "TraditionalGameSurfaceShader" into metallic workflow? This discussion was created from comments split from: [MAYA] My ShaderFx Uber Shader v2.	6 Last	Fil85 Jun 2020
[3DS Max] ISSUE with Vertex color being converted to int8 when exporting Hi everyone,I'm currently encountering a big issue here, and everything makes me think that this is a big issue from 3ds Max.Here is the problem:I'm baking some pivot positions into vertex color usin…	12 Last	Rayoule Jun 2020
(MEL) getting selected vtx index ? { string $compSel[]= `ls -sl -fl`; string $obj[]= `ls -hilite -type "transform"`; string $storeEdgeLoop[]; int $numTokens; string $buffer[]; int $id[]; for($comp in $compSel){ $num…	2 Last	onionhead_o Jun 2020
(Maya) MEL need help with extracting numeric part of a name Hi guys, i am trying to extract numeric value of a name. For example i have listed an edge and i got :// Result: pCube1.e[17] // How can i extract just the number, so i can get something l…	2 Last	Bodizzz Jun 2020
Maxscript gizmo access Hi all,Isit possible access show transform gizmo through code? So instead of it toggling you can turn it on/off on command.Searched the reference and found tmGizmos but I'm not seeing anything …	7 Last	afb3d Jun 2020
Maya Viewport 2.0 \| Light Rig Hello, I hope this is the right section for this post. I wanted to share my light rig with you guys. Unreal and Blender Has gone quite crazy recently, though some of us are still stuck with the …	0 Last	lukybiernat May 2020
Free 3dsmax autorig and calling info from other script problem Hi everyone. I made an auto rig and I have a problem calling info between script.When I evaluate the first time the autorig, in some part of the other script I have an error about spinners amd editte…	3 Last	dg3duy May 2020
Star shader only displays with certain colours? Hello all,I don't know much about shaders so I am wondering if I am missing something completely obvious here. I am using the shader graph in Unity 2019. I am trying to create a starry look for my ba…	9 Last	Vranvs May 2020
uvErrorChecker for maya - detect overlapped UVs and UVshell crossed udim border I am writing a tool to detect overlapped UVs and uv shell crossed over udim border.If anyone like to test here is the linkkey features:-detect overlapping uvshell -detect shell cross udim border…	0 Last	tsungyuw May 2020
Shader in Unity: using alpha as specular intensity and diffuse as specular color, could it work? Hi guys!I've been in the industry for a while but never had much love for poking around shaders settings and such. So when it comes to properly explain to our shader programmer the kind of result i w…	3 Last	poopipe May 2020
MEL is it possible to export a .fbx file and set the options explicitly? Hi guys, so I'm looking to create a script that exports my selection as .fbx with some specific options, I've searched the help and I can't figure out how to set these options specifically. Basically…	5 Last	SBliznitsov May 2020
Maxscript - "Current Modifier" I've done some searching and I can't find a simple answer to this; is there a command in maxscript to call on the currently active modifier? I have some scripts that work in Editable/Edit Poly, but …	3 Last	supernekosan May 2020
[3Dsmax] Autorig Scale... I made a system to create lips and jaws based on Paul Neale, the whole system is created based on initial points.The question is how to create the starting points and then manipulate them all togethe…	5 Last	dg3duy Apr 2020
maxscript assign array value to property Hi, basically what I want to do is to assign material property to an array like d_standard =#("diffuseMap")and later call it as property likedefmat = standardMaterial()texPath = Bitmaptexture fi…	6 Last	monster Apr 2020
No More Pinkish Maxscript Listener UI. Hi there...Starting from 3ds max 2020 update 1 you can modify maxscript-listener ui colors.Explained in maxscipt 2020 help document, the listener window can be modified with few lines of code.O…	1 Last	monster Apr 2020
Maya auto naming and bridge to Marmoset Hi, guys. I made a tool for quick rename and transfer your meshes to Marmoset Toolbag(3.08)the older version doesn't have python support for quick load FBX in the baking group.https://gumr…	0 Last	FredKoch85 Apr 2020