Bunch of maxscript questions....

[Blue]

1. Ok i can get the matID from the selected face, but i cannot set the matID for the selected face in edit poly. Im currently trying to use....

$.EditablePoly.setMaterialIndex 1 --set material id on selected face to 1

Looking at the line above it is missing the faceFlags after the index number if you just add a space and a 1 it should work.
$.EditablePoly.setMaterialIndex 1 1
You can also try:
polyOp.setFaceMatID $ (polyOp.GetFaceSelection $) 1

[Blue]

2. I want do do my own spinner for material ID on my dialog(hence the above question), does "on myMaterial changed do" activate the script when changing, using spinners etc?

You seem to be missing the argument variable, the following should set the matId when the spinner changes:
on myMaterial changed val do $.EditablePoly.setMaterialIndex val 1

[Blue]

3. The following code work when i cycle through it, but when i run the script it doesnt work... The same issue when doing a planarx, planary, planar z etc...


on myPlanarView pressed do --facemap
(
mySelection = $.getselection #Face --get currently selected polys
subobjectLevel = 0
modPanel.addModToSelection (Unwrap_UVW ()) ui:on
subobjectLevel = 3
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap.selectPolygons mySelection --select original selection
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.mappingMode 1 --planar map mode
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.mappingAlign 2 --z map
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.mappingAlignToView()
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.mappingMode 0
macros.run "Modifier Stack" "Convert_to_Poly"
subobjectLevel = 4
$.EditablePoly.SetSelection #Face mySelection --select original selection
)


This block actually worked just fine for me, what is it not doing for you? Also instead of using the macros.run "Modifier Stack" "Convert_to_Poly" command, the more direct route would be to use convertToPoly $ , its just a suggestion, the macro way will work too of course.

[Gibbz]

the planar map doesnt work, basically its a script that does a planar map from the camera view. It doesnt work on my home pc or work pc... the line that fails is...

$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap5.mappingAlignToView()

[Blue]

Some kind of thank you would have been nice for the above answers. Without this it makes debugging your work difficult.

You should make sure that the normalize uv option is off when you do the align to viewport function.
$.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].setNormalizeMap false

[Gibbz]

Yes thanks to every on this forum for my millions of n00b maxscipt posts :)

For some reason my max was buggy, it needed a reinstall to work. It was causing no end of odd problems...

Is it possible other scripts can interfere with the maxscript somehow?

[Blue]

Global definitions (functions or variables) can cause any number of problems with other scripts.

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