Atmospheric And Effect

Functions for dealing with atmospherics and effects.

Save/RestoreAtmosphericNames
Two functions that save and restore the names of the current atmospherics.
Save/RestoreEffectNames
Two functions that save and restore the names of the current render effects.
Save/RestoreSpecialFXNames
Two functions that save and restore the names of both the current atmospherics AND effects.

Save/RestoreAtmosphericNames:

Two functions that save and restore the names of the current atmospherics.
Useful when using refs.Dependents() on items that reference atmospherics, since doing so will reset the atmospheric's name (a bug in Max).

Returns:

TRUE when successfully save/restored the names, otherwise FALSE.

Arguments:
none

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Save/RestoreEffectNames:

The Render Effect equivalent to Save/RestoreAtmosphericNames().

Returns:

TRUE when successfully save/restored the names, otherwise FALSE.

Arguments:
none

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Save/RestoreSpecialFXNames:

Calls both Save/RestoreEffectNames() and Save/RestoreAtmosphericNames() at once.

Returns:

TRUE when successfully save/restored the names, otherwise FALSE.

Arguments:
none

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