I have a handful of questions that are kind of unrelated but its easier to put them in all one thread. (ANSWERED) Exploded baking. I know how to do a exploded bake, that is simple enough, but what do you do for the AO map? Do you bake the AO from the exploded bake or do you do it from the combined mesh to get more accurate…
Hey folks, Still nothing really that interesting to post, just thought I'd run my new site layout and design past you all to see what people think. http://www.greveson.co.uk/temp/ All hand-written in PHP and CSS, I've also set it up to allow different styles if you pass a "style" parameter to the link so I can quickly…
Hello everyone. I model a lot of shapes with wide flowing curved surfaces. I already wrote a script to convert my selected poly edge to a curve and automatically rebuild it with a specified number of spans. I do this so that I can have a nice smooth guide to conform my verts to. The problem is that I have to do this…
Hi All! I'm creating a tool that involves creating a PSD file texture node through a Python script. In the above picture, a texture node created through script is on the left ('scriptTex') and a texture node created through the Hypershade in Maya is on the right ('psdFileTex2'). Notice that the texture on the left is…
Hello guys... Swift-Switch is a script that i made for Autodesk 3dsmax and it helps you change to different render engines instantly. It also features Render presets for V-Ray and Mental-Ray and many more things. Additionally it also contains M-Converter (Script to convert materials) and VRay OceanMtl (Unique Material for…
Hey guys i wrote some scripts that help to speed up exporting and i want one more addition. --Fast save overwrite 2 step script --STEP 1 - export file with this script, it will store location of the file --Filename should be equal to the name of the object if selection.count != 0 do ( actionMan.executeAction 0 "40373"…
there are other ways to do it, storing the edge normals in an array would have been a better way to go but it was really just a cut and paste script I had code that worked that way. In general keeping normals in a mapping channels work well with scripting as you don't need the object selected and to be in the Modify Panel…
Alright I got Slide Normal Thief to work with Max 2014. Here's the link to Slide Normal Thief in case anyone else is interested in the script. http://slidelondon.com/_downloads/SlideNormalThief/SlideTools-SlideNormalThief.rar 1. Try putting the script in your Script directory folder 2. Go to Customize > Customize User…
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/free-130-scripts-for-modeling-uv-video-tutorials-for-each- This script set has a neat little gem that can set an expression to the near/far clip relative to your current view. It's handy if you're working on stuff up close and pull way out for a large scene like that, I'm using it…
I'm pretty sure you can set the default in max's viewport configuration window. Click the [+] in the viewport label (upper left) and choose configure viewport. OR if that doesn't work... You could add a change to perspective command to the FOV script and bind that new script to your perspective shortcut. That way every…