Rotate UVWMap gizmo a selection of object

Submitted by Michele71 on Tue, 2011-01-25 15:03

Hello everyone :)

How do I rotate the gizmo a modifier UVWMap in a selection of object?

Scenario:

I have 10 box and I apply to each a modifier UVWMap.
I want rotate the gizmo UVWmap to each object of 90° (or other
value) randomly pressing a button so as to have 10 objects with different rotation mapping.

My example dont work...

rollout t "Test"
(
	local mymod = (UVWMap())
 
	button b "Create UVWMap"
	button b2 "Random"
 
	on b pressed do
	(
	addmod =  for i in selection do addModifier i (UVWMap()) ui:on
         )
 
        on b2 pressed do 
              (
	     giz = mymod.gizmo
             giz.rotation = (angleaxis -90 [0,0,1]) as quat
                 )
 
)
createdialog t

If I select only one object the script works in half (the button dont refresh the value every time I press it) and if I select all object, i have this error message:

>> MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception: -- Unknown property: "gizmo" in Uvwmap:UVW Mapping <<

Can you help me? I can not find a solution....

Thanks

General Scripting

Comments

Submitted by Michele71 on Tue, 2011-01-25 23:23.

Yes Joker it's all right !!

Yes Joker it's all right !! :) Thanks!!!!!!!!

The only problem is:

How to If I want rotate the uvwmap a defined value (es. 90° or 45° ecc.)always random
for all object?

Anyway thanks again! :)

Submitted by Anubis on Wed, 2011-01-26 08:30.

Hi Michele, if I see, you

Hi Michele,
if I see, you need to choose random value between concrete vals like 45 and 90. If so, put them to array and use random index to select an item from.

a = #(-90, -45, 45, 90)
r = a[random 1 4]

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Submitted by Michele71 on Wed, 2011-01-26 11:07.

Hi Anubis, Thanks for you

Hi Anubis, Thanks for you reply :)

Yes, now it's all right! I never thought of using an array to construct a random
value...this advice I will be very useful, this is a great tip that I will always remember ;)

Thanks again Anubis

Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-01-25 17:23.

Here you go!

rollout t "Test"
(
	local mymod = (UVWMap())
 
	button b "Create UVWMap"
	button b2 "Random"
 
	on b pressed do
	(
		mapMod = UVWMap maptype:4
		addmod =  for i in selection do addModifier i (mapMod) ui:on
	)
 
	on b2 pressed do 
	(
		for i = 1 to selection.count do
		(
			obj = selection[i]
			giz =obj.modifiers[1].gizmo
			val = (random -360 360)
			giz.rotation = (angleaxis val [1,1,1]) as quat
		)
	)
 
)
createdialog t

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