Turbosmooth iterations based on camera distance

Submitted by toondek on Sat, 2014-11-15 11:15

Hi!

I am working on a personal short film project which requiers large and detailed scenes.
I am looking for a script to assign turbosmooth iterations based on camera distance to reduce details on far objects.
The script may have to control one turbosmooth modifier by objects or one instanced turbosmooth for all objects.

I searched the net and found nothing.

If someone could help me?

Thank you!

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Submitted by Raffx on Sat, 2014-11-22 14:45.

check on john Wainwright's

check on john Wainwright's maxscript 101 lessons, there are some stuff on LOD topic!

Submitted by toondek on Sun, 2014-11-23 03:02.

Thanks you Raffix, it's what

Thanks you Raffix, it's what i done.

And after many hours watching john Wainwright's maxscript 101 lessons, maxscript's help and other tutorials i have a base script to control turbosmooth's iterations based on camera distance and a little bit more.

But in building the script, i got lot of ideas for usefull addons but i have some difficulties to integret them into the script.

First, i was thinking it would be cool that the script's reference object could be any type of object than just cameras. So i add a button for picking object but i don't know how to tell to the script to use this object for the distance function...

In a second time, i wanted to had an helper like the gismo's rotation to see directly in the viewport the distance entered in the script. So i added creation of three circles into the script but i don't find the command lines to assign them a position constraint targeted to the picked object...

That's what the script looks like so far :

--Turbosmooth Object Distance IterationsTool by Toondek  :
 
start = animationRange.start
end = animationRange.end
 
-- Turbosmooth Object Distance Tool Dialog :
 
rollout TS_Object_Distance_Tool "Turbosmooth Object Distance Iteration Tool"
(
	--Dialog Parameters :
 
	pickbutton pbtn "Pick Object"
	spinner dist "Distance Reference : " range:[0,1000,1]
	spinner it_true "Iterations if True :" type:#integer range:[0,5,1]
	spinner it_false "Iterations if False :" type:#integer range:[0,5,1]
	button create "OK"
 
		--Display the name of the Object on the button:
 
		function SetObjNameAsBtnText obj pbtn =
		(
			if obj != undefined do
			(
				pbtn.text = obj.name
			)
		)
 
		on pbtn picked obj do SetObjNameAsBtnText obj pbtn
 
	on create pressed do (
 
	--Turbosmooth Object Distance Tool Parameters :
 
		-- Set Turbosmooth's iterations keyframe creation range
		with animate on
		for t  in start to end by 1 do
 
		-- Select geometry type of object in the scene
		at time t
		for obj in geometry do
 
		-- Set reference distance to object
		if distance $Camera001 < dist.value then
 
		-- Set Turbosmooth's iterations if distance test = true
			obj.Turbosmooth.iterations = it_true.value
			else
 
		-- Set Turbosmooth's iterations if distance test = false
			obj.Turbosmooth.iterations = it_false.value
 
	-- Helpers creation :
 
		-- XHelper Creation :
		Circle radius:dist.value name:"XHelper"
		rotate $XHelper 90 y_axis
		$XHelper.wirecolor = red
		$XHelper.showFrozenInGray = off
		Freeze $XHelper
 
		-- YHelper Creation :
		Circle radius:dist.value name:"YHelper"
		$YHelper.wirecolor = green
		$YHelper.showFrozenInGray = off
		Freeze $YHelper
 
		-- ZHelper Creation :
		Circle radius:dist.value name:"ZHelper"
		rotate $ZHelper 90 z_axis
		rotate $ZHelper 90 x_axis
		$ZHelper.wirecolor = blue
		$ZHelper.showFrozenInGray = off
		Freeze $ZHelper
	)
)
createDialog TS_Object_Distance_Tool width:400
 
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check on john Wainwright's

Thanks you Raffix, it's what

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