Short Cut for hiding Bones/IK Chain/Point in Max4

[ayanami0]

Hi Guys,
Please let me know if there is any hot-key for hiding the bones.

Thanks!

[Chris Thomas]

make sure your bone objects are all prefixed bone_

then create this as a macroscript and assign to a key of choice..

if bonh == undefined do global bonh = 1
if bonh == 1 then
(hide $bone*; bonh = 0)
else (unhide $bone*; bonh = 1)




Cheers ;)

[ayanami0]

Awesome!! :bounce:

Thanks! My man!:buttrock:

James

[LFShade]

I had a bit of time, and I'd been meaning to do this anyway, so here's a couple of macroscripts that'll hide/unhide bones (regardless of their name ;)). One will toggle only standard Max bones, the other will toggle all objects with their bone property turned on. I figured it was best to cover each case separately :)

Drop ToggleHideBones.mcr into your ui/macroscripts directory, launch Max, and assign the macros to shortcuts, buttons, or a quad. You'll find them in the "Views" category; they'll be labelled "Hides/shows all standard bones" and "Hides/shows all bone objects".

http://www.zeetec.net/host/lfshade/ToggleHideBones.mcr

[dvornik]

Thanks. Nice and simple. :thumbsup:

[Chris Thomas]

BTW my script may be a little clunky, but..... it could be usefull for other purposes, just copy it to a new button, change the two instances of BONE and BONH to another name and you have a script that can hide other "sets" i.e. prefix your skin meshes with skin_ and you could create a button to hide such items etc. have a try.... :)

[LFShade]

I don't consider your script clunky at all. I think if it does the trick, it's all good! It's just that I'd been putting off writing my version for a while and this thread became my impetus to do so. Figured I might as well make it available while I was at it.

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