CGTalk - poly selection help

swords

02-12-2003, 09:49 AM

Hi !

in Max5.1 , editable poly/mesh,

could anyone tell me if there's any way/option
to select instantly only 3-sided face or 4-sided face ?

for example i got this editable poly mesh character
but there's both 3-sided (tri) and 4 sided on it.
and the 'number of faces' shown up under 'editable poly'
is always showing the number of any faces regardless it's 3 or 4 sided.
so it'll be a great help if there's a method/option to instantly select and show up all 3-sided , or 4 sided , on the mesh.
so u can immediately identifly them and change them if needed.

thanx !!

jadedchron

02-12-2003, 10:14 AM

if i'm not mistaken there are buttloads of scripts all over the net. try looking first on google.

gaggle

02-12-2003, 12:30 PM

google knows all™
worship the google.

Check out scriptspot.com as well, they have the whole script-thing down to perfection.

jadedchron

02-12-2003, 12:40 PM

now if only there was a gaggle.com :wavey:

swords

02-12-2003, 04:00 PM

haha okay
thanx ;)

jadedchron

02-12-2003, 04:02 PM

i have a script i forgot about on my harddrive. it selects all non quad poly's. you could just invert the selection. or just take the difference from the total of polys'. i'll post a link to it on my host in a second

here you go:
http://www.fragcentral.com/~super/3d/SelectNonQuadPolys.ms

swords

02-12-2003, 07:43 PM

God ! Thank u !
very helpful :)

works fine in max5.1 :))

jadedchron

02-12-2003, 07:49 PM

:thumbsup:

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