apologies for my lameness guys, I got it the plugin to work I forgot to place a file in the right folder. scroll to the bottom, you'll see what I mean. http://www.maya3d.dk/Scripts/MJPolyTools/ it basically does what mop is describing, with one click though rick- that would be sweet, custom make your own tweaks to tools…
If you open the file in notepad, on the first line you should see something like HEADVERS (number). The number will be the version of maya it was made with. 5 files should open right up in 6, maybe the file uses a custom script or plugin that you don't have. You should open up the script editor and see if it gives you any…
For animation id really go with (in order of preferance) Maya, XSI then MAX. I say this because Maya has some supreme scripting built in, what i couldnt animate i could atleast have a good wack at with a few script ideas. But Im totaly in agreemant with the artist makes the tool work no matter, just in Maya you got a few…
Those lights are the result of a Maya script called Global Illumination. The script allows you to fake high quality global illumination and allows from so pretty decent looking, pretty quick renders. The shadow is just the default Depth Map at 512 resultion which is why it's fuzzy. If I turned up the resolution or turned…
So it turns out that all the traingles from CAD geometry don't have smoothing groups assigned, even though the normals separated along the hard edges and unified on smooth edges. Soooo.... I had already unwrapped the mesh, so just before resetting all the normals I ran a script I found here by RenderHJS that assigned SGs…
That certainly always was the case. You can create selection groups in the same way in max (named selection sets I think ) - they might carry up the stack . Otherwise a small script that stores the vertex indices and reselects them sounds a lot more convenient than switching applications. It's probably worth looking in the…
Hi there! I'm new at scripting, so pls don't lynch me. I read a whole bunch of threads, and didn't find what I looked for. I'm trying to write a script that converts the component pivot to the object pivot. In other words, it translates and rotates the object pivot to fit the current component pivot. Getting the…
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Hi, Mark. Yeah its pretty close to magic button what i need ) Thanks! I read a little about max script and try to change script to the way: export file with current .max file name. Like, if i have blah_blah.max, exported file should have the same name - blah_blah.fbx I was try using maxFileName, cause it looks like…
You'll need to manually browse to the Mental Ray plugin in the plug-in manager, its entry in the list should stick between sessions if it's loaded or not. I'm not sure what in MR it needs, Maybe some special sauce for moving data between apps? But this thread suggests that commenting out the requirement in the script might…