SpeCter, make sure you're running the tools on "Editable Poly" objects not boxes or edit mesh. As listed on the site some tools don't work with certain mesh types.
I feel ashamed...didn´t notice that i wasn´t in editable poly mode, normally thats the first thing i do:poly136:
I got it to work for some things now, but if i use it for a Cube (10x10x10), they should all lay on top of each other if i Stack them, but they Stack in a weird way?
yes, and my 2nd part of the script is to find out a way to place the slice correctly. It works very nice so far and in comparison with the pelt mapping it actually unfolds 90%+ of it in nice squares.
Awesome man, just awesome
The default spline mapping stuff in max is really great for some things (like textured roads and such), but it's limited in what it can do. It's also annoying that you have to manually create the spline to map from, especially when it's an organic shape, like a tree trunk.
I use your tool set everyday renderhjs, absolutely love it and I'm looking forward to the next release.
it does not have the transform type in floater because that one is not yet done and needs more tweaking. It comes however already with a button for it next to the width, height and pixel padding size input fields.
max2010 fix for the disappearing image buttons, can anyone confirm that it works fine with max2010?
experimental peel button, will spline map the associated shell of 1 or more selected edges. Works only well with looping shells like tubes and alike. The split seam is not yet controlled so it often might appear random to you.
split by smoothing groups so hard edges will result into UV seams. If your model does not come with smoothing groups the same calculation will be done with 60° applied surface smoothness (not altering your model there).
Since 2.5 you have add popup who said "The rendered texture was stored to your clipboard"
is that possible to disable this popup? or just print OK in the mini-listener?
sweetness Will test it out soon. Um, how do I go about updating an older version? When I drag the new file into max and then close and re-open, it uses the older version I had previously installed. I'm running Max 2010 64bit.
I Will use this for my next Project, so if i find any bugs, i will inform you.
Edit: Do you have any method to inform you fast, or should i just post everything here?
Try my messenger: ICQ, AIM, MSN, YM should all work just fine. The numbers should be visible in my polycount account page or below my avatar. Apart from that either here if its texTools related or via my eMail address that is visible on my website: http://www.renderhjs.net/
I consider max 8 to be rather old (Wikipedia says: October 2006). The major thing that does not work with Max 8 is the:
Copy Bitmap to clipboard: because of the use of DotNet components is only available with max9+
I just scanned through the UV-unwrap documentation of maxscript and it seems that most of the stuff all works fine with max8. Just the new peel mapping thing I added yesterday works only with max2009+.
So give it a try,- see what works aside from the render to clipboard stuff I might pick it then up in the documentation and mark the functions with a icon or symbol that work with max 8.
Not used any of the updates yet they look awesome I still have version 1.7 hehe. Wheres the info button gone?
I considered it to be useless. It was a nice code snippet collection for me back then - but I dont think that that function adds useful functionality. All it did was outputting some numbers and ratios which usually can be judged easier with your eyes just by looking at the UV's anyway.
Or do you see a scenario where it would be useful?- if so I am all ears.
Since 2.5 you have add popup who said "The rendered texture was stored to your clipboard"
is that possible to disable this popup? or just print OK in the mini-listener?
Yes I was annoyed by some heavy bake jobs, thought they were already done but they weren't so I thought having a feedback is nice. It should not be a big burden because usually you don't call those methods so often.
But I am considering an optional checkbox otherwise in the setup menu to let you control that yourself, whether you want a dialog feedback or just some maxscript listener output.
sweetness Will test it out soon. Um, how do I go about updating an older version? When I drag the new file into max and then close and re-open, it uses the older version I had previously installed. I'm running Max 2010 64bit.
Well make sure that the created macro script you use points to the correct version. And just to be sure maybe re-assign the macro to your toolbar, shortcut or whatever. Because the new one should come with an Icon you can see on your 3dsmax main toolbar for example.
I used the previous version 2010 - never saw buttons disappear. This version works just as well, so I think it's fine.
What I mean are these icons:
What you see on the right side is what happened before- but I hope that now with the 2.80 release in max2010 you see it as on the left side. So is that the case ? would be nice if some max2010 user could confirm that.
the UV transform floater is almost done, so I decided to add some align stuff to it:
the Transform stuff now actually very pixel floating precise,- and you can really use the spinners to see it update. Switching to a different direction (4 corners to choose from) will behave different and let you move stuff with higher precision.
As for the align buttons I a context sensitive mode in mind. Aligning UV shells to their most outer border (depending on the direction) if you have face selected. And Aligning only selected UV-verts if you selected UV-verts ahead.
I am thinking of some Texture Atlas input helper like a scale of +/- 0.25 so you can easily blow up the whole UV layout by a quarter or half or double. Same perhaps for moving or offsetting selected shells but instead so that it snaps to a pixel perfect position.
Just to be sure better re-assign your macro scripts that launch the TexTools (I guees for most people that would be the main toolbar). So remove it and drag it again from the customize User interface into the menu - but maybe I am wrong on this and it works just fine with just dragging the file into max and everything updates.
The new transform toolbar appears automatically whenever you open the UV-unwrap editor from within TexTools - and will be removed if you close it either via TexTools or simply if you close the UV-unwrap editor itself.
Transformation Floater usage:
Its important each time that after each selection you want to modify you initialize the starting variables and to do that simply click on the arrows, the input fields should then update according to your selection. Just play with it after a while you will get the hang of it.
The reason for this is that I still want to safe as much resources and performance as possible and avoiding any possible crashes because of constant updates. So maybe I find some tricky ways to do that automatically in the future.
But i found a bug(i think), but it is with the stack tools.
I made a cube(Made it Editable Poly) 100x100x100 and used explode, so good so far.But then i selected all shells and clicked Stack Tools...Bam!!!, only one Side remains and the other Sides are gone like in this screenshot:
I hope you understand what i mean.
Edit: just noticed that the Menu(old and new) now Sticks to the UVW Editor all the time YAY!
well the stack tools is still buggy,- you can always undo that one.
The reason its not so great yet is because it take the most distant 2 verts of each Shell in UV space as given pairs. But of course thats now always the case and of course it usually takes more spots than 2 to identify a pattern or shape. I know that many other soloutions (like headus) work with a user input marking system so that the code knows which spots are the same on each shell - but I wanted to find a way around that.
So for now perhaps ignore that button or only try it with more complex topologies because thats where it might shine better.
I have a question about installation. When I drag and drop the latest version (2.9) to 3d max viewport - for a moment is ok...Textools 2.9 appers and works all fine. But when I close 3d max and reopen, Textools doesn't appear, even when I open Unvwrap UVW window. Everytime I have to drag and drop. What am I doing wrong?
I have a question about installation. When I drag and drop the latest version (2.9) to 3d max viewport - for a moment is ok...Textools 2.9 appers and works all fine. But when I close 3d max and reopen, Textools doesn't appear, even when I open Unvwrap UVW window. Everytime I have to drag and drop. What am I doing wrong?
check this installation instruction: http://renderhjs.net/textools/img/texTools_2.23_installation.gif
after you drag it into your view port you have to add a macroscript (the kind of script you can add to your interface) to your toolbar.
You launch TexTools via that shortcut then each time you need it. The reason for the decision is that
not everyone wants to have it start with each 3dsmax startup,- but only start it as soon as they need it.
I can not register a event in maxscript that knows when you open or close the UV unwrap editor.
Thats what I have the open/ Close Uv Editor button for + it also has its advantages on the code side- as I can tweak and prepare more stuff my way.
of course you can have it also your way and let it launch each time 3dsmax starts- if you really want that simply put the TexTools_2.90.mzp into your 3dsmax/scripts/startup folder. It should then each time launch whenever you startup 3dsmax.
and something more... when I loaded the latest Textools, I haven't got a 'Pixel Transform Floater' only tools from Textools
make sure you launch it from within the TexTools interface and not via the 3dsmax modifier panel.
Also if you had an earlier version intalled before- make sure you update the TexTools launch macroscript (see my first answer regarding registering the macroscript to your main toolbar), just remove the shortcut (if you had one before) and re-drag the macroscript back to the main 3dsmax toolbar.
With the new version the shortcut that i made for the "align" is not working anymore.
maxscript return an error :
Argument count error : fn_04_align_uv_verts wanted 1, got 2 (code line 942)
but if i click the button without using the shortcut it work fine
yes I noticed that yesterday as well,- it adds wrong parameters there I will fix that later today.
Ok, so I installed this today and the toolset is awesome. However, I've got a problem where I can't use the render to texture window to bake my objects.
Pressing the render button does nothing, but I can still bake maps through texTools. This means I can't bake out a normal map, which is driving me crazy! Is there something I've missed out or has something gone wrong on my end?
EDIT: Hmm, it's working on some files and not others. Must be something on my end, so not much you can do to help me I suppose. I'll try deleting it and re-installing
EDIT 2: Sorry for the constant editing but I managed to re-create the problem. I used textools to make an AO map, then while it was rendering I pressed cancel. I then tried to use r2t to bake an AO and when I pressed render nothing happened. It said at the bottom "texture baking complete" but no rendered frame window came up. Maybe this is a bug?
Yes, I understand, but I can't add the macroscript to the toolbar. I drag 'Textool' Action from 'Customise User Interface' and I'm trying to add to the toolbar - and nothing, nothing happens, nothitng appears.
Sometimes when I want to add some other macroscript to the toolbar, I open it to edit it, then I select everyting (all code) and I drag it and add to the toolbar - it works, but when I want to do the same with your script, I have a massege:
"Maxscript Macroscript Error Exception
Compile error: Nested macrscipt definitions are not permitted
In line: macsript T"
and I can't do enything.
The 2nd problem that I have.. is when I put the script into 3dsmax/scripts/startup folder. After that, when I open 3d max, your script opens every time these all windows (instead of one -only Textools):
Pressing the render button does nothing, but I can still bake maps through texTools. This means I can't bake out a normal map, which is driving me crazy! Is there something I've missed out or has something gone wrong on my end? EDIT: Hmm, it's working on some files and not others. Must be something on my end, so not much you can do to help me I suppose. I'll try deleting it and re-installing
at the end of the script it deletes the bake render job node from the object- it might the reason why later baking stuff the max way wont work anymore if so sorry about that. Will dig into debugging right away - see if I can find the code part that causes that.
Because I experienced something similar as well sometime ago: not being able to bake anything with the object anytime later.
Edit: I think its the method:
$.removeAllBakeElements
thats causing the behavior of not being to able to bake anything after that. Will have some more experiments later to see how I can fix things.
Yes, I understand, but I can't add the macroscript to the toolbar. I drag 'Textool' Action from 'Customise User Interface' and I'm trying to add to the toolbar - and nothing, nothing happens, nothitng appears.
Sometimes when I want to add some other macroscript to the toolbar, I open it to edit it, then I select everyting (all code) and I drag it and add to the toolbar - it works, but when I want to do the same with your script, I have a massege:
"Maxscript Macroscript Error Exception
Compile error: Nested macrscipt definitions are not permitted
In line: macsript T"
and I can't do enything.
thats odd,- I mean thats all on 3ds max part - managing the macroscripts. Maybe it cant find or address some resources (icons, associated code,...) but I have no idea why. Do you have full administrative rights on the computer when you try to install the TexTools and drag the macro script to the toolbar?
The 2nd problem that I have.. is when I put the script into 3dsmax/scripts/startup folder. After that, when I open 3d max, your script opens every time these all windows (instead of one -only Textools):
interesting, never tried that myself though obvious I don't recommend that. We will have to find a solution for your 1st issue instead.
also I updated the documentation page and added some new animations:
Transform selections:
align shells or verts:
Split according to Smoothing Groups:
Symmetry:
Peel pipe:
carlo_c: I tried to reproduce the RTT bug but I was not able to,- everything works fine here after I do all of the detail map baking types from the TexTools floater.
I don't know any maxscript so maybe I'm talking about something which doesn't make sense but if your command deletes the bake render job node, is there a command I could type to "give it back" lol.
Then I could try to bake and if it works, well that's a good enough solution for me. If not then at least I'll know it's something on my end
maybe send me the scene - or just the object that can not RTT anymore - so I can test things on it. Use the PM system or my eMail address on my website otherwise to send me the file if you can.
Do you have full administrative rights on the computer when you try to install the TexTools and drag the macro script to the toolbar?
Yes I do, this is my home computer with 3d max 2009 installed a couple of days ago. But on my computer in my job I can't do it as well. Maybe I do something wrong ? but what.. its only drag and drop;) Anyway I can't put into Main Toolbar.
The 'Peel' is a cool tool, but when I'm doing some pipe or cable using 'Line' and then I convert it to 'editable poly' - the tool doesn't work, why? I know that during creating some 'Line' there is an option 'Generate Mapping Coords' but sometimes I have to turn it off.
'Linear - Align edge or vertex selection to a single line' - is it possible to
connect this tool with some shortkey?
just a note; your first post has an outdated download link.
btw: thank you so much for those animated gifs you keep adding, it makes everything so easy to understand and I am getting much more use out of this now that I fully understand every feature!
hm, i got a problem there with the toolbar attaching to the uv editor window. whenever i minimize the editor window the toolbar keeps getting in the way of my perspective view AND i can't move it around the place like i could before. what am i doing wrong /what could be/is the solution to this ?
edit: oh and when i hit the align button twice on a selection it gets moved right to the left of the editor window - something i haven't encountered with the chuggnut tools
Yes I do, this is my home computer with 3d max 2009 installed a couple of days ago. But on my computer in my job I can't do it as well. Maybe I do something wrong ? but what.. its only drag and drop;) Anyway I can't put into Main Toolbar.
The 'Peel' is a cool tool, but when I'm doing some pipe or cable using 'Line' and then I convert it to 'editable poly' - the tool doesn't work, why? I know that during creating some 'Line' there is an option 'Generate Mapping Coords' but sometimes I have to turn it off.
that button requires that you have a editablePoly as a base and the UV unwrap modifier as current active. Its not complete anyway since the seem generated is random and not controlled. Use the Pelt button instead otherwise if the peel does not work for you.
'Linear - Align edge or vertex selection to a single line' - is it possible to
connect this tool with some shortkey?
yes it has the odd translation of : "straighten line flow" I have to rename that sometime. Its because of the iterations each of my tools make through - and sometimes things get renamed or merged with other stuff.
just a note; your first post has an outdated download link.
btw: thank you so much for those animated gifs you keep adding, it makes everything so easy to understand and I am getting much more use out of this now that I fully understand every feature!
thx will fix that 1st page anyway. This thread has grown way out of proportions anyway
And yes the GIF animations had that intentions- explaining without words in a few seconds what and how to use it. But apart from that it lets me also embed those animations here in the boards to explain people step by step with images what they need for certain actions.
hm, i got a problem there with the toolbar attaching to the uv editor window. whenever i minimize the editor window the toolbar keeps getting in the way of my perspective view AND i can't move it around the place like i could before. what am i doing wrong /what could be/is the solution to this ?
I know -_- will have to fix that,- maybe some 2.92 update anytime soon.
edit: oh and when i hit the align button twice on a selection it gets moved right to the left of the editor window - something i haven't encountered with the chuggnut tools
will check that out,- I had something like that myself on the align stuff. I have a hunch what might be the reason for that. thx for letting me know
^^
yes it has the odd translation of : "straighten line flow" I have to rename that sometime. Its because of the iterations each of my tools make through - and sometimes things get renamed or merged with other stuff.
^^
guess there is no other way,- will upload a video later to Youtube showing how to do stuff- through its super easy.
Thanks for video;) But I can't add the script to Main Toolbar anyway.
When I'm dragging the action 'TexTools' and trying to put to the toolbar - I haven't got such icon - black border-box which allow me to put there.
That's odd but true I don't know why:/
^^
that button requires that you have a editablePoly as a base and the UV unwrap modifier as current active. Its not complete anyway since the seem generated is random and not controlled. Use the Pelt button instead otherwise if the peel does not work for you.
Is there a chance in a future that it will work correctly in (for example) such case like I wrote ?
Reloads all CUI icons from the icon files. This can be used to refresh the UI after adding new or editing existing icon bitmap files.
Available in 3ds Max 9 and higher.
Looks like that was added to max9. Seriously what are you doing on max8? 9 is pushing the boundries of dinosaur land. There might be some simple edits you can try on your end to drop or comment out that line. But in order for the icons to refresh you would probably have to restart 3dsmax.
Is there still no way to have a keyboard shortcut on the "open editor" button? That's my biggest prob with these tools at the moment.
I usually have max setup with a shortcut to place my UVW modifier, and another to open the editor (I use U and Y, makes it really quick to open the editor). But now when I use those I don't get the pixel transform floater, and I just can't get used to having to press a button to open the editor (some say lazy, I say efficient! .
Did a bunch of searches, but didn't find any solutions.
I'm stuck with a problem with the set texel tool and could seriously use some help.
I've got a room with a 2048* (walls, floor, ceiling) and a 512x128 (trim) applied. For now, I've whacked my prototyping textures on there to illustrate my problem :P My prototyping textures have a checkerboard that remains the same size through all of the size variants.
I want to get an 8px/1unit texel ratio going, but when I apply this, the room and the trim don't line up - The room seems to be scaled correctly, though - I'd have thought with the checkerboard being over the different texture sizes, applying the same texel density would mean the checkerboard would appear to be the same across both objects, live in my scene?
Image to illustrate (ignore the stretching):
I'm not entirely familiar with your tools, and I'm quite new to abiding by a texel density rule. I'm also at the end of a day of crunch so it could be blindingly obvious, but some help on getting a consistent px/unit would completely pwn.
Can you re-add your render 'faces' map option? I was using that extensively for masking, and while the 'blocking map' could be useful, it also gives me too much info and takes far longer most of the time. I much prefer just selecting hte elements I want to texture on my model, hitting that one button, then pasting that into a mask on my photoshop layer set.
Also, could you expose the 'max dist' parameter in your AO bake detail map? You have the spread and samples exposed, but that max dist value is very, very important.
sorry for being absent
I was busy moving from Germany to Sydney for a new game development work
I hope to get started with TexTools sometime next week once I have settled here somewhat.
Gerbeiter:
I will have to look into it but for now I think it has rather to do with your missing Administrative rights or wrong Max version. You need Max 9+ and some administrative rights because by default Max stores all scripts into a folder outside of your user folder (usually c:\program files\autodesk\3dsmax2009\scripts\..).
I had another message from a chinese user who couldn't install the script either - he got some errors shown up and I believe in his case it was because of the different folder seperator sign as it is not a dash like on our OS but some Yuan or whatever character.
JohnnyRaptor:
Yeah I guess you have been already told this but that particular function is only available in max9+. I will add an optional condition in the script that detects max8 or below versions to ignore that command and instead prompt with some message to restart max in order to see the icons appearing for the toolbars should you drag them into the toolbar.
Bal:
Always planned but never added to the macroscripts. Will try to cover that the next time. I agree that should be really handy maybe with an additional detection wheter or not TexTools was already started or not and have it pop up as well should it not have been started before.
Yozora:
Will have to look into that why its different from the others. Worked so far for me.
Holi:
You mean like relaxed distribution on 1 line? could you tell me where you would use it?
there is already the linear align button
that usually does the job for me because non pixel matching UV seams are what I usually try to avoid.
glynnsmith:
I will try to respond to that some other time - because it always takes time to explain Texel stuff ^^ and right now I am a bit busy.
Hi there!
Im late on the party but I just tried the tools and they are fantastic!
One question tho - is there a way you could have UV soft selection controls in there? Just simple things : distance, and per topo VS per vert distance toggle. Soft selection might actually by in the default max toolset ... but I personally still relies on Chuggnuts toolbar to thisday and I thing it takes this out :P
Thanks! Fantastic job man! Loving the quick checker toggle!
Replies
I got it to work for some things now, but if i use it for a Cube (10x10x10), they should all lay on top of each other if i Stack them, but they Stack in a weird way?
Awesome man, just awesome
The default spline mapping stuff in max is really great for some things (like textured roads and such), but it's limited in what it can do. It's also annoying that you have to manually create the spline to map from, especially when it's an organic shape, like a tree trunk.
I use your tool set everyday renderhjs, absolutely love it and I'm looking forward to the next release.
download:
TexTools_2.80.mzp
awesome work again render
Since 2.5 you have add popup who said "The rendered texture was stored to your clipboard"
is that possible to disable this popup? or just print OK in the mini-listener?
Keep up the good work!
http://www.renderhjs.net/
I consider max 8 to be rather old (Wikipedia says: October 2006). The major thing that does not work with Max 8 is the:
- Copy Bitmap to clipboard: because of the use of DotNet components is only available with max9+
I just scanned through the UV-unwrap documentation of maxscript and it seems that most of the stuff all works fine with max8. Just the new peel mapping thing I added yesterday works only with max2009+.So give it a try,- see what works aside from the render to clipboard stuff I might pick it then up in the documentation and mark the functions with a icon or symbol that work with max 8.
I considered it to be useless. It was a nice code snippet collection for me back then - but I dont think that that function adds useful functionality. All it did was outputting some numbers and ratios which usually can be judged easier with your eyes just by looking at the UV's anyway.
Or do you see a scenario where it would be useful?- if so I am all ears.
Yes I was annoyed by some heavy bake jobs, thought they were already done but they weren't so I thought having a feedback is nice. It should not be a big burden because usually you don't call those methods so often.
But I am considering an optional checkbox otherwise in the setup menu to let you control that yourself, whether you want a dialog feedback or just some maxscript listener output.
Well make sure that the created macro script you use points to the correct version. And just to be sure maybe re-assign the macro to your toolbar, shortcut or whatever. Because the new one should come with an Icon you can see on your 3dsmax main toolbar for example.
What you see on the right side is what happened before- but I hope that now with the 2.80 release in max2010 you see it as on the left side. So is that the case ? would be nice if some max2010 user could confirm that.
the Transform stuff now actually very pixel floating precise,- and you can really use the spinners to see it update. Switching to a different direction (4 corners to choose from) will behave different and let you move stuff with higher precision.
As for the align buttons I a context sensitive mode in mind. Aligning UV shells to their most outer border (depending on the direction) if you have face selected. And Aligning only selected UV-verts if you selected UV-verts ahead.
I am thinking of some Texture Atlas input helper like a scale of +/- 0.25 so you can easily blow up the whole UV layout by a quarter or half or double. Same perhaps for moving or offsetting selected shells but instead so that it snaps to a pixel perfect position.
TexTools_2.90.mzp
Just to be sure better re-assign your macro scripts that launch the TexTools (I guees for most people that would be the main toolbar). So remove it and drag it again from the customize User interface into the menu - but maybe I am wrong on this and it works just fine with just dragging the file into max and everything updates.
The new transform toolbar appears automatically whenever you open the UV-unwrap editor from within TexTools - and will be removed if you close it either via TexTools or simply if you close the UV-unwrap editor itself.
Transformation Floater usage:
Its important each time that after each selection you want to modify you initialize the starting variables and to do that simply click on the arrows, the input fields should then update according to your selection. Just play with it after a while you will get the hang of it.
The reason for this is that I still want to safe as much resources and performance as possible and avoiding any possible crashes because of constant updates. So maybe I find some tricky ways to do that automatically in the future.
But i found a bug(i think), but it is with the stack tools.
I made a cube(Made it Editable Poly) 100x100x100 and used explode, so good so far.But then i selected all shells and clicked Stack Tools...Bam!!!, only one Side remains and the other Sides are gone like in this screenshot:
I hope you understand what i mean.
Edit: just noticed that the Menu(old and new) now Sticks to the UVW Editor all the time YAY!
The reason its not so great yet is because it take the most distant 2 verts of each Shell in UV space as given pairs. But of course thats now always the case and of course it usually takes more spots than 2 to identify a pattern or shape. I know that many other soloutions (like headus) work with a user input marking system so that the code knows which spots are the same on each shell - but I wanted to find a way around that.
So for now perhaps ignore that button or only try it with more complex topologies because thats where it might shine better.
With the new version the shortcut that i made for the "align" is not working anymore.
maxscript return an error :
Argument count error : fn_04_align_uv_verts wanted 1, got 2 (code line 942)
but if i click the button without using the shortcut it work fine
http://renderhjs.net/textools/img/texTools_2.23_installation.gif
after you drag it into your view port you have to add a macroscript (the kind of script you can add to your interface) to your toolbar.
You launch TexTools via that shortcut then each time you need it. The reason for the decision is that
- not everyone wants to have it start with each 3dsmax startup,- but only start it as soon as they need it.
- I can not register a event in maxscript that knows when you open or close the UV unwrap editor.
of course you can have it also your way and let it launch each time 3dsmax starts- if you really want that simply put the TexTools_2.90.mzp into your 3dsmax/scripts/startup folder. It should then each time launch whenever you startup 3dsmax.Thats what I have the open/ Close Uv Editor button for + it also has its advantages on the code side- as I can tweak and prepare more stuff my way.
make sure you launch it from within the TexTools interface and not via the 3dsmax modifier panel.
Also if you had an earlier version intalled before- make sure you update the TexTools launch macroscript (see my first answer regarding registering the macroscript to your main toolbar), just remove the shortcut (if you had one before) and re-drag the macroscript back to the main 3dsmax toolbar.
yes I noticed that yesterday as well,- it adds wrong parameters there I will fix that later today.
Pressing the render button does nothing, but I can still bake maps through texTools. This means I can't bake out a normal map, which is driving me crazy! Is there something I've missed out or has something gone wrong on my end?
EDIT: Hmm, it's working on some files and not others. Must be something on my end, so not much you can do to help me I suppose. I'll try deleting it and re-installing
EDIT 2: Sorry for the constant editing but I managed to re-create the problem. I used textools to make an AO map, then while it was rendering I pressed cancel. I then tried to use r2t to bake an AO and when I pressed render nothing happened. It said at the bottom "texture baking complete" but no rendered frame window came up. Maybe this is a bug?
Yes, I understand, but I can't add the macroscript to the toolbar. I drag 'Textool' Action from 'Customise User Interface' and I'm trying to add to the toolbar - and nothing, nothing happens, nothitng appears.
Sometimes when I want to add some other macroscript to the toolbar, I open it to edit it, then I select everyting (all code) and I drag it and add to the toolbar - it works, but when I want to do the same with your script, I have a massege:
"Maxscript Macroscript Error Exception
Compile error: Nested macrscipt definitions are not permitted
In line: macsript T"
and I can't do enything.
The 2nd problem that I have.. is when I put the script into 3dsmax/scripts/startup folder. After that, when I open 3d max, your script opens every time these all windows (instead of one -only Textools):
Because I experienced something similar as well sometime ago: not being able to bake anything with the object anytime later.
Edit: I think its the method: thats causing the behavior of not being to able to bake anything after that. Will have some more experiments later to see how I can fix things.
thats odd,- I mean thats all on 3ds max part - managing the macroscripts. Maybe it cant find or address some resources (icons, associated code,...) but I have no idea why. Do you have full administrative rights on the computer when you try to install the TexTools and drag the macro script to the toolbar?
interesting, never tried that myself
TexTools_2.91.mzp
also I updated the documentation page and added some new animations:
Transform selections:
carlo_c: I tried to reproduce the RTT bug but I was not able to,- everything works fine here after I do all of the detail map baking types from the TexTools floater.
Then I could try to bake and if it works, well that's a good enough solution for me. If not then at least I'll know it's something on my end
Yes I do, this is my home computer with 3d max 2009 installed a couple of days ago. But on my computer in my job I can't do it as well. Maybe I do something wrong
The 'Peel' is a cool tool, but when I'm doing some pipe or cable using 'Line' and then I convert it to 'editable poly' - the tool doesn't work, why? I know that during creating some 'Line' there is an option 'Generate Mapping Coords' but sometimes I have to turn it off.
'Linear - Align edge or vertex selection to a single line' - is it possible to
connect this tool with some shortkey?
I'm loving the new features.
just a note; your first post has an outdated download link.
btw: thank you so much for those animated gifs you keep adding, it makes everything so easy to understand and I am getting much more use out of this now that I fully understand every feature!
ps: OMIGOD peel pipe is SO AWESOME
edit: oh and when i hit the align button twice on a selection it gets moved right to the left of the editor window - something i haven't encountered with the chuggnut tools
guess there is no other way,- will upload a video later to Youtube showing how to do stuff- through its super easy.
edit, uploaded:
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that button requires that you have a editablePoly as a base and the UV unwrap modifier as current active. Its not complete anyway since the seem generated is random and not controlled. Use the Pelt button instead otherwise if the peel does not work for you.
yes it has the odd translation of : "straighten line flow" I have to rename that sometime. Its because of the iterations each of my tools make through - and sometimes things get renamed or merged with other stuff.
thx will fix that 1st page anyway. This thread has grown way out of proportions anyway
And yes the GIF animations had that intentions- explaining without words in a few seconds what and how to use it. But apart from that it lets me also embed those animations here in the boards to explain people step by step with images what they need for certain actions.
I know -_- will have to fix that,- maybe some 2.92 update anytime soon.
will check that out,- I had something like that myself on the align stuff. I have a hunch what might be the reason for that. thx for letting me know
Yeah, that's cool
Thanks for video;) But I can't add the script to Main Toolbar anyway.
When I'm dragging the action 'TexTools' and trying to put to the toolbar - I haven't got such icon - black border-box which allow me to put there.
That's odd but true
Is there a chance in a future that it will work correctly in (for example) such case like I wrote
Is there still no way to have a keyboard shortcut on the "open editor" button? That's my biggest prob with these tools at the moment.
I usually have max setup with a shortcut to place my UVW modifier, and another to open the editor (I use U and Y, makes it really quick to open the editor). But now when I use those I don't get the pixel transform floater, and I just can't get used to having to press a button to open the editor (some say lazy, I say efficient!
"Runtime error: dotNet runtime exception: W:\current\projects\img_renderToClipboard.bmp"
AO baking and wireframe to clipboard still works fine.
edit: reinstalled version 2.80 for now, temporary fix
I have not read the whole thread, but is a "linear relax" planned? (relaxing on U or V only)
It will be paradise!
I'm stuck with a problem with the set texel tool and could seriously use some help.
I've got a room with a 2048* (walls, floor, ceiling) and a 512x128 (trim) applied. For now, I've whacked my prototyping textures on there to illustrate my problem :P My prototyping textures have a checkerboard that remains the same size through all of the size variants.
I want to get an 8px/1unit texel ratio going, but when I apply this, the room and the trim don't line up - The room seems to be scaled correctly, though - I'd have thought with the checkerboard being over the different texture sizes, applying the same texel density would mean the checkerboard would appear to be the same across both objects, live in my scene?
Image to illustrate (ignore the stretching):
I'm not entirely familiar with your tools, and I'm quite new to abiding by a texel density rule. I'm also at the end of a day of crunch so it could be blindingly obvious, but some help on getting a consistent px/unit would completely pwn.
Can you re-add your render 'faces' map option? I was using that extensively for masking, and while the 'blocking map' could be useful, it also gives me too much info and takes far longer most of the time. I much prefer just selecting hte elements I want to texture on my model, hitting that one button, then pasting that into a mask on my photoshop layer set.
Also, could you expose the 'max dist' parameter in your AO bake detail map? You have the spread and samples exposed, but that max dist value is very, very important.
Thanks again for all the great work!
I was busy moving from Germany to Sydney for a new game development work
I hope to get started with TexTools sometime next week once I have settled here somewhat.
Gerbeiter:
I will have to look into it but for now I think it has rather to do with your missing Administrative rights or wrong Max version. You need Max 9+ and some administrative rights because by default Max stores all scripts into a folder outside of your user folder (usually c:\program files\autodesk\3dsmax2009\scripts\..).
I had another message from a chinese user who couldn't install the script either - he got some errors shown up and I believe in his case it was because of the different folder seperator sign as it is not a dash like on our OS but some Yuan or whatever character.
JohnnyRaptor:
Yeah I guess you have been already told this but that particular function is only available in max9+. I will add an optional condition in the script that detects max8 or below versions to ignore that command and instead prompt with some message to restart max in order to see the icons appearing for the toolbars should you drag them into the toolbar.
Bal:
Always planned but never added to the macroscripts. Will try to cover that the next time. I agree that should be really handy maybe with an additional detection wheter or not TexTools was already started or not and have it pop up as well should it not have been started before.
Yozora:
Will have to look into that why its different from the others. Worked so far for me.
Holi:
You mean like relaxed distribution on 1 line? could you tell me where you would use it?
there is already the linear align button
that usually does the job for me because non pixel matching UV seams are what I usually try to avoid.
glynnsmith:
I will try to respond to that some other time - because it always takes time to explain Texel stuff ^^ and right now I am a bit busy.
..looks fancy and expensive..
Just stay away from the spiders man.
Im late on the party but I just tried the tools and they are fantastic!
One question tho - is there a way you could have UV soft selection controls in there? Just simple things : distance, and per topo VS per vert distance toggle. Soft selection might actually by in the default max toolset ... but I personally still relies on Chuggnuts toolbar to thisday and I thing it takes this out :P
Thanks! Fantastic job man! Loving the quick checker toggle!