Select all tris/ngons in 3d max
polycounter lvl 11
The annoying thing is I know how to do this in Maya easily 
But I'm not going to export to maya just to use the select using constraints tool and then import back to max...
I have searched and everyone just suggests to use polyboost or orionflame which both have tools to do this and they work fine, but I dont want to install either of these big tool packages and only want to do 1 thing - I know you can install the package and hotkey the tool but that still means I have to install the whole set of tools and leave them lying around in my scripts folder somewhere, which I dont like.
I found a script that counts all the tris/ngons etc and displays the number of each type but it doesnt select them; http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/polygon-edge-summary
I figured all I need to do is edit this script to select the faces, but I'm struggling with just selecting the tris alone
I know it probably has something to do with "numSidesType = 3" at least -.-
Theres probably a easier way to make the script; select all 4 sided faces and then invert selection... but I still have no clue how to do that either.
But I'm not going to export to maya just to use the select using constraints tool and then import back to max...I have searched and everyone just suggests to use polyboost or orionflame which both have tools to do this and they work fine, but I dont want to install either of these big tool packages and only want to do 1 thing - I know you can install the package and hotkey the tool but that still means I have to install the whole set of tools and leave them lying around in my scripts folder somewhere, which I dont like.
I found a script that counts all the tris/ngons etc and displays the number of each type but it doesnt select them; http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/polygon-edge-summary
I figured all I need to do is edit this script to select the faces, but I'm struggling with just selecting the tris alone
I know it probably has something to do with "numSidesType = 3" at least -.-
Theres probably a easier way to make the script; select all 4 sided faces and then invert selection... but I still have no clue how to do that either.
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