XRef Objects

god3ila

Hi everyone,
I've got a question about using XRef objects in 3DSMax. Is there a way to add a child to an object that is referenced in another scene, and get this child on the scene where this object is referenced?

I've made instances of this particular object, so I would like to see this child with every instanciated objects in my scene.

When I talk about a "way", it could be a script, a plugin or whatever.

Thanks a lot!

rollin

Maybe what you want to do could be done a bit different? Maybe with XRefScenes or Proxys or something like that?

god3ila

I'm actually using XRef objects to build a level inside 3DSMax. So I have to have access to the object itself be able to move it, scale, rotate etc.
In this case, there's a mesh added to the object, and I want them to be separated, cuz the new mesh have some transparency, but I don't succeed to find a way to make it appear with each of individual Xref instance.

rollin

if it's just the transparency you could try to use a submaterial + material ids

god3ila

Ok, so I've found a workaround, instead of trying to apply another object to all the XRef objects in the scene, I've used a script that instanciate a child. Each child object will find his parent (match by name) and take the same transformation than his parent.

sallavan

so I got runtime error first time,I run the max by administrative and now I get this error.

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MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception

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-- Unknown property: "width" in undefined

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OK

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