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Dimich
04-11-2007, 03:23 AM
Hey all, I just ran into an interesting problem: I want to get the text_spline to animate it's text. I cannot seem to find a way to do that since the actual text input dialog for the text spline has no animatable properties or controls... Neither does it seem that I can assign any controllers to it, since it's an editbox...Is there a way to do this with MaxScript, or is this already an SDK task? Any help is appreciated:) Cheers!
erilaz
04-11-2007, 03:42 AM
You can animate it with maxscript, but the problem is the script will NOT work during the render. There are ways to work around that... try this:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=67850
rodbrew
04-17-2007, 10:11 PM
Check this out to see if it is what you need.

http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/#CounterText

It uses sort of a C style syntax to format the output value which can be wired to pretty much anything. Doesn't look like he has recompiled it for Max 9 yet however.

Hope this helps,
Rod
Bobo
04-17-2007, 10:16 PM
Read the MAXScript Reference, topic "How do I change the text in a Text Shape dynamically?"

Note that the topic is part of Frequently Asked Questions, so you are not the first one to ask... ;)
Dimich
04-19-2007, 05:36 AM
Thanks Bobo and everybody:) Paul showed me how to do it, it just seemed to be so weird...I mean the way he did shouldn;t have worked in any way with other things, but it does with text... Anyways, thanks alot for the replies:)
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