Maxscript - Moving sub object selections

I_R_Hopo

Hey guys, hoping someone can help me out here. I just took a look at Maxscript today for the first time because I wanted to speed up a certain task I'v ebeen doing. I got what I wanted, but then realized it only works for object selections, not seperate vertexs like I want. Here's my script:



As you can see, I'm trying to take a selection, record it's position, and place another selection at that same position. But I'd like to do this to individual verticies, not whole objects. I'm assuming my use of "$" and "selection.pos" is the problem here? How would I get around to moving the vertex's instead?

Thanks!

r_fletch_r

Take a look at meshOPs and polyOps. you will need these to do subobject editing.

meshop for editable mesh and polyOp for editable poly.

On a side note, you know you can use Snapping to do this job without a script right?

I_R_Hopo

Ohhhh.... I knew there had to be a way to do it already in max. Ah, well, that was slightly stupid of me. Such an obvious solution too! Haha. Oh well, at least now I know some of the basics of MaxScript. Thanks r_fletch_r

r_fletch_r

your welcome. is the snapping working for you. I might be misunderstanding what you want to try it before you give up on the script

I_R_Hopo

Yeah, the snapping definately works. It's a bit annoying though when vertices are close together, so I think I'll still make my script just to speed things up. Thanks again! I'll post here if I run into any more problems.