Quick Mask

Hi Anubis,
Great script. Perfect for smaller scenes. Had to wait a bit when using it in a complex one with lots of xrefs but at the and it made the mask. Than waited some more to turn everything back to what it was ;)
Anyway any plans to build animation support in it?

Greats!

why not ;) will put this in the todo-list.

[edit] before spend any time on this, need to say that you can render animation with the current script; just setup your renderer (F10) as usual and finally call the script.

Hi,
sorry for my newbieness,
but I can't make it work,
I've run the script, but nothing happened.. =|
Is there a specific folder where put it on?

Thank in advance,
have a nice day.

Hey Elia,

its a macro script, so after run it once,
just find it in your Customize dialog
and assign it to hotkey/menu/button.

Thank you Anubis,
now I've learned something new,
Great script! ;)

still dont know whats wrong with vr in the main script but glad to see it works fine for you, cheers.

you made it ... it works now fine
best wishes with your scripts

ok i just tested it as normal (without vrayproxies) and it works but when i tested it with vrayproxies it didn't work .. and that what happened

First i get DOS window opened with vray icon on taskbar then max hanged for while finaly i got just a black window render

Second time i tried to restart max and tried again but this time max hanged and stop working

best regards,
mustafa

its hardly to help more without vray here, but... just make this test:
- made some test scene (and save it)
- assign your vray renderer
- the script mask selected, so select objects you like
- and run this script:

with undo on
(
	matB = standardMaterial diffusecolor:black \
		selfIllumAmount:100 twoSided:on
	matW = standardMaterial diffusecolor:white \
		selfIllumAmount:100 twoSided:on
	
	geometry.material = shapes.material = matB
	selection.material = matW
	
	useEnvironmentmap = off ; backgroundColor = black
	
	render()
)
max undo

very useful script but sadly it gives wrong result when i rendered vrayproxies

I expect this question to come out some day :)

The script using Default Scanline Renderer and that means it not support mr_proxy as well. I not use this renderers (MR or VR) but the good news is that I update the script. Now it will check the scene for proxies and switch to MR/VR if necessary.

So pleace test the last script version and drop some feedback.

Cheers

thanks!

excellent, thanks!

Really useful, thank you very much!!

Best regards.

great very usefull ! thanks

Renderhjs, finality I just extend the script as you suggest (without dotNet).

dotNet is a framework for 64 bit systems and I'm not sure if Max supported it in versions prior to 9.

only Max 9 with service pack or greater versions have such a button. Plus most users will save it, open it in PS, select it copy it paste it to the other document anyway. SO in many cases steps could be reduced.

I would say that this is unnecessary complication. Max VFB has a Copy button that copies without having to store the bitmap file. But thanks anyway for the advice.

you could extend the script to store the rendering to the clipboard. So one can easier paste it in Photoshop.

it works something like this:
--copy to clipoard and delete temp image
clipboardClass = dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard" --create a Clipboard dotNetClass
imageClass = dotNetClass "System.Drawing.Image" --create an Image dotNetClass
theBitmap = imageClass.FromFile url_save_path --get the saved image from file as bitmap
clipboardClass.setImage theBitmap --copy the image to clipboard
theBitmap.Dispose() --release the bitmap

where url_save_path is a url of the temporary image saved on the disc.