a couple of easy noob questions

[PooLatka]

Ok, well, because your first two posts on this forum have to be monitored, it gave me time to figure that crap out.

Anyway, I was trying to think of something simple to make with my 2 day knowledge of maxscripting and came up with this Simple Rail Creator thingy.
Download:
http://putstuff.putfile.com/66263/591118


rollout benrail "Simple Railings"
(
label raillabel1 "Main Rail"
spinner railheight "Rail Length" range:[0,9999,100]
spinner railradius "Rail Radius" range:[0,9999,5]
label raillabel2 "Supports"
spinner supports "Supports" range:[0,100,5] type:#integer
spinner supportheight "Support Height" range:[0,9999,50]
spinner supportradius "Support Radius" range:[0,9999,3]
label raillabel3 "Note: Support radius should"
label raillabel4 "be smaller than Main Radius"
label baselabel1 "Base"
spinner baseheight "Base Height" range:[0,9999,3]
spinner baseradius "Base Radius" range:[0,9999,4]
button railbut "Create Rail"
label raillabel5 "Made by Bennett Gross"
label raillabel6 " 2007"
on railbut pressed do
(
newrailobj = cylinder height:railheight.value radius:railradius.value
rotate newrailobj (angleaxis -90 [1,0,0])
move newrailobj [0,0,supportheight.value]
x_offset = 0
x_offset2 = 0
spacing = (railheight.value)/(supports.value)
--baseradius = (supportradius.value)*(1.5)
--baseheight = (supportheight.value)*(.07)
for i = 1 to supports.value do
(
newrailsup = cylinder height:supportheight.value radius:supportradius.value
move newrailsup [0,x_offset,0]
x_offset += spacing
newbasesup = cylinder height:baseheight.value radius:baseradius.value
move newbasesup [0,x_offset2,0]
x_offset2 += spacing
)
newrailsup2 = cylinder height:supportheight.value radius:supportradius.value
move newrailsup2 [0,railheight.value,0]
newbasesup2 = cylinder height:baseheight.value radius:baseradius.value
move newbasesup2 [0,railheight.value,0]
)
)
createdialog benrail



Anyway, I included the code so maybe if you guys have the time to go through it and find things that could make my life easier, or just critique it. I would love to know anyway i can optimize it.

[Zbuffer]

Hi,

1. rotate $ [90,0,0] wil rotate the selection 90° in X
2. don't understand
3. read up the MaxScript reference, that is the Best ressource you will ever find
lots of example scripts and howto..

[Anubis]

Hey man, awesome work for your second day! My critique is that when doing many different things like this, I would wrap them up in a single undo:


on railbut pressed do
(
undo "Create Rail" on
(
do stuff
)
)

Also, when I make my floaters I check to see if they are already open:

if benrail != undefined do ( closerolloutfloater benrail )
benrail = newrolloutfloater "Simple Railings" 190 300

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