Bounding box of selected faces
Hi guys, how´s going?
i know there´s some scripts of "create bounding box" objetcs, that creates a box over the selected objects (like this one - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/translated-bounding-box). I need a script that makes the same thing, but only in the selected faces (or any sub-object, but mostly faces). I found this one - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/bounding-boxer - and it does what i want, but it too "complicated", i need something quicker. Does anyone can help me? I tried to do it using max listener, detaching the faces as a copy and then creating a bounding box using the new object, but for some reason it doesn´t work all the times.
Thanks in advance,
Jsrocha
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Hey Miauu, thanks for your
Hey Miauu, thanks for your help. This script works, but it creates a dummy instead of a box. I tried to tweak the code, but it doesn´t work (i´m a bad coder). Do you know how to make it create a box?
thanks man,
Jsrocha
Hey Barigazi, thanks for your
Hey Barigazi, thanks for your reply, and excuse my late reply, i was in a big rush here ;)
here´s a screenshot showing what i want -
http://prntscr.com/1qq5jv
Basicaly, is to make a bounding box using the selected faces as size reference. As i said, i made a code that does what i want, but this code have two problems: first, is slow. Two, sometimes it doesn´t work (i don´t know why). In fact, is not a code, is a tweaked macro recorder, i'm pasting it here (pretty embarassing):
( --the code starts with the faces already selected in the object
macros.run "Tools" "Isolate_Selection"
actionMan.executeAction 369982487 "40086" --this hides the unselected faces of the object
$.EditablePoly.Hide #Face
macros.run "BlurScripts" "BBoxMaker" --this is the blur script BBoxMaker, which makes a boundig box using the selected object as reference size
macros.run "Editable Polygon Object" "EPoly_UnHide" --this unhides all the hiden faces of the object
subobjectLevel = 0 --exit sub-object mode
modPanel.setCurrentObject $.baseObject
d = for hwnd in UIAccessor.GetPopupDialogs() where UIAccessor.GetWindowText hwnd == "Warning: Isolated Selection" do exit with hwnd
if d != ok do UIAccessor.PressButtonByName d "Exit Isolation Mode" --these three lines of code i got from the internet, it exits the isolation
)
ok man, that´s it. If you can get a better code, i´ll appreciate (pretty easy i guess ;)
thanks,
Jsrocha
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Post your code and some screenshots to see exactly what you want to achieve
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