How to find all noise controllers.

[d3coy]

You'll have to construct your own collection to obtain all the noise controllers. You may want to ask yourself whether you are interested in noise_position, noise_rotation, noise_scale, noise_point3, noise_float, or all of them. Then you can narrow your search down and perhaps only loop through the lights objectset to obtain lights with a noise_float controller on their multiplier track, and append that controller to a collection for your convenience. If you're only looking for position, rotation, or scale noise controllers then likewise you can loop through the objects objectset and test against their animation tracks. Several ways to skin this cat.

[kees]

No need to loop anybodies tracks for this one:


noiseConts = #()

join noiseConts (getClassInstances position_noise)
join noiseConts (getClassInstances rotation_noise)
<... repeat for all noise controller classes you are interested in...>

noiseConts will now hold an array of ALL noise controllers in the scene.


-Kees

[mustan9]

wohoo!

Thanks kees! That was actually what I was looking for.

[d3coy]

wow, I've never seen that method before, thanks kees

[doctorx256]

Thanks Kees. Cool one, i had never thought of that but...
i think there is a small typographic error...

it should be...
join noiseConts (getClassInstances noise_position)

and not...
join noiseConts (getClassInstances position_noise)

Have fun maxxing...

[JHaywood]

That's a great tip Kees. One of these days I'm going to have to actually read through the MaxScript reference. :)

[d3coy]

haha, that's exactly what I was thinking... I've been scripting for over two years and never saw that method. It makes me paranoid that there is some other great method hidden in there that I've been scripting circles around??

[luigi]

Really useful ones :) thanks for the tip :).

Going to rea the help to to know more about it too.

[rdg]

In this context I would like to be evocative of
sloft's great article about Maxecipt References [1]

Georg

[1] http://www.sloft.com/2005/11/26/maxscript-references/

[JHaywood]

Thanks for the great link, now I've got even more reading to do. :)

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