CGTalk - Script - UVW Random

blenderman0815

12-14-2006, 07:01 PM

Dear CG Talk community!

I have just finished my "UVW Random" max-script for 3ds max version 8

Installation:
- extract the zip file to your 3dsmax /script/ folder
- start 3ds max
- in the top menu, go to "Customize" and select "Customize User Interface"
- Go to group "MainUI" and choose the category "blendermanScripts"
- You can then add it to your own UI (Toolbar, Quads, Menu or Keyboard)

Application:
1. Add UVW-Xform Modifier to as many Objects as you like!
2. Use the script to add random values for UVW Tile, Transform or Rotation

Known Bugs:
- works only with the "UVW-Xform" on the top of the modifierstack
- script crash (not max) if you use "add modifier" to non-geometry like camera

"UVW Random" is licensed under the GPL and comes with absolutely no warranty!

Please post feedback

Seeya,
Oli "blenderman"

blenderman0815

12-19-2006, 11:28 PM

Demos for UVW Random. All Objects have same material & same geometrie.

Textures and UVW Random (http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/1889/textureyi8.jpg)

Organic Procedural Shader and UVW Random (http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2586/proceduralorganicrb8.jpg)

Procedural Shader (http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8627/proceduralstonekc0.jpg)

UVW Random is very powerfull with procedurals since Max can convert XYZ to UVW.

antonv

01-11-2007, 04:35 PM

Hi Oliver,

This seems to be a great tool and Just got the chance to start playing with it only that it crashes on me. Might be user error ;)
So what I'm doing is creating a box, applying a material with a stone map and an UVW Map modifier. Then I try to add the UVW-Xform modifier from your script and it errors out saying: Unknown property: "Map_Kanal" in UVW_Xform:UVW Xform.

Any idea what am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Anton

antonv

01-11-2007, 04:54 PM

Got it. It seems like you have the german version of max which uses Map_Kanal instead of Map_Channel. I've changed the code and no more errors!

Time to play!

Thanks,
Anton

blenderman0815

01-12-2007, 09:59 AM

Thanks for this bug and your interest Anton,

at work we use unfortunately the localised German Version of 3Dsmax. I think it was not the greatest Idea of Autodesk to localise MaxScript...

Thanks for compliment. The tool is a great help for me. But it´s a real Simple script.

Seeya,
Oli "blenderman"

Deadalus

01-12-2007, 05:33 PM

blenderman0815: wow just as i tought i needed a tool like that it fall from the sky.. er germany
thanks man, this tool will help speed up my workflow

-D-

blenderman0815

02-02-2007, 04:10 PM

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Changes in V2
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Bug - uses Map_Kanal instead of Map_Channel
Sorry no more features...

Now it Must be work fine with International Versions of 3dsmax. Thanks Anton

reForm

02-06-2007, 11:39 AM

Haha... I just wrote a random uvw script towards the end of last year.... although its pretty basic... your's sounds pretty good! My script is designed to work on a single object with an unwrap-uvw; it then randomly moves the uvw's of each face. (ideal of randomizing the noise on a wall of glazing to give it random distortions that dont continue from once pane of glass to the next)

Thanks for releasing it.

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