Tagged 'General Scripting'

Hi

I'm pretty new to scripting and started to make a script which creates stands of a stadium.
Two questions have come up:

1) Is it possible to give an object a name directly after creating it? At the moment I do it like this for example:
Rectangle length: L2 width: W2 corner_radius: ra2 steps: s
$Rechteck01.name = "T2 Stand" (Rechteck is german for Rectangle)

The problem is when someone with the english version of 3ds max is using the script it doesnt work because there is no object with the name "Rechteck01", but one named "Rectangle01".

Hi, is there a way to make 2 rollout menus and when I select something in the first, on the secont is appearing different items. The easyest way to explain it is... in the first to be something like car makes Audi, BMW, Mitsubishi etc. and when I select one of them, on the second appears the models.

Sorry for my bad english :)

Since max 2016 appears to have changed how linking works - and having posted in the max forum about why its changed, I'm now hoping to create a nasty short term fix.

Essentially objects now automatically inherit absolutely its parents transforms (not relatively like in all other versions of max). I'm personally finding it a nightmare....

Quick question - the functions I need are as follows:

1. tempstore = $.transform
-- store tranform matrix

2. max link
-- link object

3. $.transform = tempstore
--paste transform matrix

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