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22 Jun 2005Howdy Howdy
Ok...well I've been working on some scripts in my free time lately...since over at cgtalk there have been some ongoing (weekly) script writing challenges.
The first one was to script a dining table object. My entry was NOTHING fancy ...but it worked
http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Scripts/table.ms
The second one was to script a program that takes an object, and "splits" it into chunks, and gives the chunks thickness etc. This one was much trickier to write...so my script still has some issues....mainly trouble with backface creation (my script simply caps the holes of the exploded polys...so it can look kinda funny sometimes)
http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Scripts/splitter.ms
Anyways...it's a lot of fun making these things though...and it's a great learning process...so I'd recommend that everyone tries out script writing sometime!
I'll keep this thread updated with my scripts as the challenges progress from week to week. -
22 Jun 2005Wow, wicked.
I wouldn't mind giving the chunky one a go. and have a go at making it myself. -
22 Jun 2005Nice one Tyson!
I'll give them a go a little later - as for script writing I wouldn't know where to start (in the Max sense of script writing that is)
Any recommended reading? -
22 Jun 2005Mate... These are some great scripts!
Table script will really come in handy. Would be great to see it without triangles in the main body of it, or with the Autogrid function enabled for it.
The splitter script came up with an error as it loaded, but once I got it working it was bloody fantastic!
Here's an idea for a splitter script. Create a noise map, use that as a mesh select (or even better, get it to create edges to cut around) over the face of your object, and use that to get the different segments. Also with the functions of adding all objects to a group at the end, and entering your own naming system.
eh?... eh???? -
22 Jun 2005Hey Cam....do you know the name/type of error you got when you first loaded it? I'd like to fix that
Maybe for your birthday I'll even throw in those extra things you recommended hahahaha. -
23 Jun 2005wow Tyson, the table plugin is really great!
Did you know C++ before start to make scripts?
I'll take a look at this thread on cgtalk, if there are some cool plugins. -
23 Jun 2005Hi Weider...
Actually...one of the GREAT things about maxscript is that you DON'T have to know C++ (which is, imo...a pretty complicated language).
If you've every used Visual Basic (or qbasic for you oldies) then you're pretty much set.
It's just a lot of things like...
if $box1.length > 100 then
(
print "Hello!"
)
etc etc....EXTREMELY simple (not necessarily easy once things get more comples with vertex arrays etc etc...but still simple)
Anyways....I've got lots of rendering to do today...so while I'm doing that I might write a little tutorial hehe. -
23 Jun 2005Updated my "splitter" script.
Fixed some bugs (and hopefully didn't make any new ones haha) and made it a bit more intuitive. Now it just pops up when you run the script instead of being in the utility panel
Also...now the faces extrude inward instead of outward so it looks a bit more natural -
23 Jun 2005Do you have the link for this challenge? I look around at cgtalk, but didn't find anything..
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25 Jun 2005Ah......the good old days of qbasic.
Hmmmmmmm, does that mean im old?
~Todd. -
27 Jun 2005Not really...I'm 18 and I still remember the good old days of GW-basic. Now THAT was old haha.
You had to preface each line of code with line number!
100:print "I freaze yore computare!"
150:goto 100
Hahaha. -
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13 Sep 2006Hey Hype... The only experience I had of scripting was using 'basic' on my Amstrad way back in 1985 (I hesitate to say that since I'm guessing that was the year Tyson was born! Well... I was Young then ok?... really!)
Anyhoo... Old dogs can learn new tricks. MEL is a pretty simple thing to learn. Sure it'd take years for it to become a 'natural' language, as in, I can't just sit down and write what I want from my own head. But within 1 month I wrote an autorigging script. A year later and that's on vesion 2.2 and has lots of bells and whistles and is a major part of our pipline at work.
So it can be done, but to tell you the truth, the most important thing is getting just the basics... so you can comfortably bug check, or have a inkling of what may be wrong, and are able to fathom the building blocks of other peoples script. Most of the actual writing is done with the command list open, the help files open... and a big fat book on your lap! -
13 Sep 2006yeah, someday i'll get a good book on it. wish Jon Bell still wrote books for Max. he cut straight to the nitty gritty, and made it fun. He'd probably write a great maxscript book. Draper cuts to the nitty gritty, but his reads like a textbook (but its still my fav book for Max!). Bell's read like having some funny next to you explaining it in real world terms.
anybody got any tips for a good Maxscript book? i've got the Bible, could probably start there. -
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