[3DS Max/MAXScript] Select faces with no smooth group

mickeyvpn

Hello guys!

I want to make a script that select faces with no SG on selected Editable poly objects and and then perform auto smooth for those faces.

For the start I tried to get an array of faces with polyop.getFaceSmoothGroup but it gives me a bunch of errors in Listener.

Hope you can give me advise how to accomplish that!

Swordslayer

For not showing your code nor the errormessages you're getting, you could pretty much get a 'you're doing something wrong'-type answer. Anyway, since it's a straightforward piece of code...

for obj in selection where isKindOf obj Editable_Poly do<br>(<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; local numFaces = polyop.getNumFaces obj<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; local unsmoothedFaces = for face = 1 to numFaces where polyop.getFaceSmoothGroup obj face == 0 collect face<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; polyop.setFaceSelection obj (unsmoothedFaces as bitArray)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; polyop.autosmooth obj<br>)

mickeyvpn

Hey @Swordslayer

Your code works like a charm! It's nothing but a magic!

Actually I didn't had any code written at the start of the topic, just a bunch of separate commands that I tried to stitch together.

Stumbled on this place(showing on your code):

local unsmoothedFaces = for face = 1 to numFaces where polyop.getFaceSmoothGroup obj face == 0<span> collect face</span>

Didn't know how to collect those faces that haven't SG. But now I know, thanks to you!

I'll study this code closely, thank you very much!