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Submitted by alecb513 on Thu, 2015-08-13 11:14

Hello, when lighting scenes with the maxwell plugin I tend to start my lighting process with the same shaped lights, sames names, same material. So I've decided to try and create a script to help streamline the process(I'm a new).

Question: Is there a way to save preferences in a custom rollout?

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Submitted by alecb513 on Thu, 2015-08-13 11:15.

I stumbled on some info about

I stumbled on some info about preferences being saved in the ini file. I think what I need to do is find a way to have the settings in my rollout be exported to this file. Does anybody have any experience doing this?

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Submitted by pixamoon on Fri, 2015-08-14 07:56.

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try Max Defaults:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/max-defaults

it doesn't save names but it saves properties as presets to load on new object creation or can paste saved properties...

I'll try to add save default names soon

Cheers,
Pixamoon

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