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3d Studio Max - Maxscript
Franklyn - Face Loop
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25 Oct 2006Just reserving my spot for now i should have something in by tomorrow.
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25 Oct 2006
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27 Oct 2006
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27 Oct 2006i tried this (i mean this technique, not your actual code). all you're doing is changing the selected face to edges, then growing them, then changing them back to faces, right?
i haven't reserved my spot yet, cause i haven't figured out one single iota of how to do the task yet, although i have tried. the only way to identify faces is by the number given to them when they're created, right? so, in some object that been modelled and changed, how the heck could you possibly know the numbers of the exact faces you want selected?
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27 Oct 2006Hey Frank,
I ran your script and it works well
The main problem right now is that using the face-to-edge-to-face method really only works easily when the original face selection consists of only 1 face (so that after clicking "Loop" it gives you a nice little cross). The trickier part is if you click the loop button multiple times....it still sort of "grows" the selection instead of creating a ring of faces.
My guess for a solution is that in order to create a row/column of faces, you'll simply have to successively find parallel edges to the original 4 in your selection, and deselect the rest of them before each "growth"....hahah....that probably doesn't make much sense but maybe you get a sense of what I'm thinking of? Or maybe you have a different solution? -
27 Oct 2006
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28 Oct 2006
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28 Oct 2006yeah .... i wonder why i didnt think of that.btw did you figure out how to get color values from the texture coords for the vertex lights ?
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28 Oct 2006Haven't actually tried it yet, but there's a whole section in the maxscript help files telling you how to read per-pixel data from texture maps based on UVW coordinates, and it looked pretty straight forward
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