[3ds Max] Specific object culling (?)

comfy blanket

I really don't know the term for this so I'll do my best to explain what I'm trying to do:





Basically, I need to make that oval plane be a sort of x-ray vision, but only for 1 object, which is the one it deforms on.

leechdemon

Similar to Interior Mapping, maybe? http://www.proun-game.com/Oogst3D/index.php?file=CODING/InteriorMapping/InteriorMapping.txt

The only part of the question I don't understand is the last bit, where you're talking about it deforming?

comfy blanket

leechdemon wrote: »

Similar to Interior Mapping, maybe? http://www.proun-game.com/Oogst3D/index.php?file=CODING/InteriorMapping/InteriorMapping.txt

The only part of the question I don't understand is the last bit, where you're talking about it deforming?

Ah, the deforming has nothing to do with question. I was just pointing out the plane that was moving around.

Thanks for the link, though I think that's a little too complex for what I need to do. I'll figure a way eventually.

Noors

He wants the violet plane to xray the egg shape. So i guess it has to be dynamic and react if you move the plane ? Real time or precalculate ? That beeing said, i have no clue on how to do this. Some mask projected ?

comfy blanket

Noors wrote: »

He wants the violet plane to xray the egg shape. So i guess it has to be dynamic and react if you move the plane ? Real time or precalculate ? That beeing said, i have no clue on how to do this. Some mask projected ?

It does need to be dynamic, as if the violet plane was a moving window. It wouldn't have to be real-time in the viewport, though I doubt it would be much of a perfomance hog.

Edit: ALTHOUGH, now that I think about it I may have been going about this whole thing the wrong way. I was essentially trying to make an oddly shaped eye with a moving pupil that had depth without having to have a huge sphere for rotation. Then I remembered that I could just move the pivot to the proper location. EDIT2: maybe.