[3ds Max] - viewport status display Maxscript Help!

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  PolyHertz polycount lvl 666

  Oct 2018

  I don't know the answer to your question, but I wrote a similar script to yours a while ago that may give you some ideas how to make your code more compact:
  
  

  fn vpSelStats_fn = (
      vpWidth = gw.getWinSizeX()
  
      selType = try(($.baseObject) as string)catch("n/a")
      SelName = try(($.name) as string)catch("n/a")
      selMod = try (((modpanel.getCurrentObject()).name) as string)catch("n/a") --Only works if Modifier Tab is active.
      selSub = try (subobjectLevel as string)catch("n/a")
  
      allInfo = ("Type: " + selType + "  |  ") + ("Name: " + SelName + "  |  ") + ("Modifier: " + selMod + "  |  ") + ("Sub Object Level: " + selSub)
      viewCenterX = (vpWidth / 2) - (((gw.getTextExtent allInfo).x) / 2)
  
      gw.setTransform (Matrix3 1)
      gw.wtext [viewCenterX,30,0] allInfo color:Yellow
      gw.UpdateScreen()
  )
  
  if (vpSelStatsState == undefined or vpSelStatsState == "Off") then (
      registerRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
      global vpSelStatsState = "On"
  )
  else (
      UnregisterRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
      vpSelStatsState = "Off"
  )
  
  redrawViews<br>

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  dg3duy polycounter lvl 7

  Oct 2018

  PolyHertz said:

  I don't know the answer to your question, but I wrote a similar script to yours a while ago that may give you some ideas how to make your code more compact:
  
  

  fn vpSelStats_fn = (
      vpWidth = gw.getWinSizeX()
  
      selType = try(($.baseObject) as string)catch("n/a")
      SelName = try(($.name) as string)catch("n/a")
      selMod = try (((modpanel.getCurrentObject()).name) as string)catch("n/a") --Only works if Modifier Tab is active.
      selSub = try (subobjectLevel as string)catch("n/a")
  
      allInfo = ("Type: " + selType + "  |  ") + ("Name: " + SelName + "  |  ") + ("Modifier: " + selMod + "  |  ") + ("Sub Object Level: " + selSub)
      viewCenterX = (vpWidth / 2) - (((gw.getTextExtent allInfo).x) / 2)
  
      gw.setTransform (Matrix3 1)
      gw.wtext [viewCenterX,30,0] allInfo color:Yellow
      gw.UpdateScreen()
  )
  
  if (vpSelStatsState == undefined or vpSelStatsState == "Off") then (
      registerRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
      global vpSelStatsState = "On"
  )
  else (
      UnregisterRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
      vpSelStatsState = "Off"
  )
  
  redrawViews<br>

  Woouuu looks great on screen, thanks for the input.
  

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  Revel interpolator

  Oct 2018

  Awesome @PolyHertz just wondering will it impact viewport performance?

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  PolyHertz polycount lvl 666

  Oct 2018

  @Revel Theres a small performance impact but I very much doubt you'd notice it unless your working in an extremely heavy scene where every frame counts. That said, this method does affect performance the more items you draw on screen. If you notice the script I posted above actually draws just one item to the screen which is a compiled string of all the info at once, where as the one dg3duy posted draws each piece of info separately resulting in 4x the performance cost. I did a test a while ago where had the index numbers of all object components floating above them using this method, so thousands of items, and that absolutely destroyed the framerate. But yea, for this script there's not enough being drawn to really matter.

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  Revel interpolator

  Oct 2018

  @PolyHertz cool! thanks for the info man!

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  dg3duy polycounter lvl 7

  Oct 2018

  
  This way you can place a box in the background to highlight the text. @PolyHertz  @Revel
  Visually it is perfect but at code level I imagine it is very bad
  

  
  
  
  
  fn drawThis =

  (

      boxHW=[400,20]

  messageText=#(test)

  boxColor = (lightGray=white/4)

  TextColor = black

  
  

  scrSize=getViewSize()-400/2*2

  gw.setTransform(Matrix3 1)

  
  

  for i in messageText do

  (

  posInScreen=[scrSize.x,scrSize.y]

  BoxPosX=(posInScreen.x)/2

  BoxPosY=(posInScreen.y)+380/2*2

  txtRect = (box2 BoxPosX BoxPosY boxHW.x boxHW.y) --(box2 (pos.x) (pos.y) width height  )

  gw.wrect txtRect boxColor

  )

  
  

  gw.enlargeUpdateRect #whole

  gw.updateScreen()

  )

  
  

  unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback drawThis

  registerRedrawViewsCallback drawThis

  drawThis ()

  
  

  forceCompleteRedraw()

  
  

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