ClaverTech-LightCluder
This is just a simple Tool i used for my last project, its just a quick way to setup some lights to only include/exclude a group of geometry.
usage. u can simply select the geometry and lights via the select buttons, or (my prefered way) manually drag select them in viewport and then click the "$" button to add objects to their lists then click either exclude or include to make the lights in the list exclude or include the objects in the geometry list.
most of my light rigs were world oriented but needed to be attached to moving objects(a bunch of spaceships), and since i wanted different shadow qualities on each of these objects it was really handy to make a bunch of light rigs that were only including their particular moving objects.
Heres the code
macroScript LightCluder category:"ClaverTech" toolTip:"LightCluder-Quick Light Clusions" ( objs=#() Lits=#() fn g_filter o =((isKindOf o GeometryClass) And classOf o!=TargetObject) or(isKindOf o Dummy and isGroupHead o) fn l_filter o =isKindOf o Light rollout unnamedRollout "ClaverTech - LightCluder" width:368 height:194 ( button btnLits "Select Lights" pos:[230,14] width:117 height:23 listBox lbxLits "Light List" pos:[231,41] width:116 height:9 button btnGeom "Select Geometry" pos:[20,14] width:117 height:23 button btnGrab " $ " pos:[165,14] width:40 height:23 align:#center toolTip:"Grab Selected Nodes" listBox lbxGeom "Geometry List" pos:[21,41] width:116 height:9 button btnExcluder "Exclude" pos:[150,77] width:73 height:24 button btnIncluder "Include" pos:[150,136] width:73 height:24 on btnGrab pressed do ( objs=#() Lits=#() Temp=getCurrentSelection() print Temp if(Temp.count>0) then ( objs=for j in Temp where ((isKindOf j GeometryClass and not isGroupMember j And classOf j!=TargetObject) or (isKindOf j Dummy and isGroupHead j)) collect j names=for k in objs collect k.name lbxGeom.items=names Temp=getCurrentSelection() Lits=for j in Temp where (isKindOf j Light) collect j names=for k in Lits collect k.name lbxLits.items=names ) else ( messageBox "Select the Objects in the scene then Click this" ) ) on btnGeom pressed do ( Temp=selectByName title:"Select Geometry To CLude" filter:g_filter print Temp if(Temp!=undefined)then ( objs=(for j in Temp where ((isKindOf j GeometryClass And classOf j!=TargetObject) or (isKindOf j Dummy and isGroupHead j)) collect j) names=for k in objs collect k.name lbxGeom.items=names ) ) on btnLits pressed do ( Temp=selectByName title:"Select Light To CLude" filter:l_filter if(Temp!=undefined)then ( Lits=for j in Temp where (isKindOf j Light) collect j names=for k in Lits collect k.name lbxLits.items=names ) ) on btnExcluder pressed do ( for lt in Lits do ( if(lt.excludeList==undefined)then(lt.excludeList=#()) if(objs.count>0)then ( lt.excludeList=join lt.excludeList objs ) else ( lt.excludeList=#() ) ) ) on btnIncluder pressed do ( for lt in Lits do ( if(lt.includeList==undefined)then(lt.includeList=#()) if(objs.count>0)then ( lt.includeList=join lt.includeList objs ) else ( lt.includeList=#() ) ) ) ) CreateDialog unnamedRollout 368 194 )
Feel free to copy this and save it as a .mcr and put it in ur userMacros folder (i think its in the appdata section). or u can download it below,or in 3ds max u make a new script paste the code, evaluate it with Ctrl+E and then it should show up in ur list of menu macros under 'ClaverTech'
Comments
looks promising ... i´ll try
looks promising ... i´ll try it now
thanks anyway
anybody gettin any use out of
anybody gettin any use out of this?