Maxscript question

[BrandonD]

What do you mean? A manipulator helper object like a slider? Or a transform gizmo?

[visualboo]

sorry I guess I should have explained myself better.

Lets say you have a manipulator gizmo (just a simple circle) and you always want it to face the camera, so that if you rotate the viewport, it still stays a circle and not a line (from the side).

[Taoizm]

ummm.... my first guess would be to use the look at controller.

[Bobo]

Originally posted by visualboo
sorry I guess I should have explained myself better.

Lets say you have a manipulator gizmo (just a simple circle) and you always want it to face the camera, so that if you rotate the viewport, it still stays a circle and not a line (from the side).


MAXScript Online Help,
Topic: Scripted Manipulators

gizmoUseScreenSpace

This tells the system to interpret the coordinates of the shape as device coordinates in the viewport, not as 3d values. The values are still specified as 3d points, but the "Z" coordinate is ignored, applies to all but addGizmoMesh.

gizmoUseRelativeScreenSpace

This is like gizmoUseScreenSpace, but the coordinates are specified as values from 0.0 to 1.0, and interpreted in each viewport as a percentage of the width or height of the viewport, applies to all but addGizmoMesh.

[visualboo]

Thanks bobo

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