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Maxscript: Set up a permanent face selection array
Hello Polycounters, I am in need of some assistance. I have a script that at the moment gathers the faces you have selected and stores them in an array so that you can cycle through the face selection array and randomly select faces from it. The issue I am having is that at first run the array is set up fine, but when you… -
Re: Maxscript: Set up a permanent face selection array
I'm not sure if it works with that, but arrays works differently when you use =, for example Arr1 = Arr2 will not copy the values but link those two arrays together, so if one change, the other change as well, which can be very confusing. You can use Arr1 = copy Arr2 to make those arrays unique, and maybe you can do the… -
Re: Maxscript: Set up a permanent face selection array
Thanks for the idea McGreed, I ended up storing the index of the faces in a permanent array and using setfaceselection and getting all my information from the face that way :) Thanks for the heads up Swordslayer, this is purely the base of the tool I am working at at the moment and I was trying to get a couple of things… -
Re: Maxscript: Set up a permanent face selection array
Actually, obj.selectedFaces is a live set, it changes when the selection changes. There are more issues with the code, though, first of all the gatherInfo function is equivalent to selection[selection.count].selectedFaces, pickFace function doesn't follow the single responsibility principle (and its name) and apart from…
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