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foreverendering
08-08-2007, 12:50 PM
Hi, I was digging through old threads on this forum searching for a way to bind Soft Select Falloff to a hotkey, and found this thread

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=48625&highlight=soft+falloff

which contained a cool little script that lets you bind incremental increases or decreases for soft select falloff to a hotkey.



first macroscript

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macroScript ShrinkSoftSel
category:"MyScripts"
toolTip:"Shrink Soft Select"
(
on isEnabled return
(
if (((getcurrentselection()).count == 1) and ($ != undefined)) then
if (classof $.baseobject == Editable_Poly) then true else false
else false
)

on Execute do
(
undo off
(
local tempvalue = $.Falloff
tempvalue = tempvalue - 0.5
if (tempvalue < 0) then tempvalue = 0
$.Falloff = tempvalue
)
)
)

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second macroscript

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macroScript GrowSoftSel
category:"MyScripts"
toolTip:"Grow Soft Select"
(
on isEnabled return
(
if (((getcurrentselection()).count == 1) and ($ != undefined)) then
if (classof $.baseobject == Editable_Poly) then true else false
else false
)

on Execute do
(
undo off
(
local tempvalue = $.Falloff
tempvalue = tempvalue + 0.5
$.Falloff = tempvalue
)
)
)
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My question is, is it possible to modify this script such that you could hold down a key, and then increment up & down using the mouseCursorY or mouseCursorX position? This would provide a functionality similar to a sculpting program like Mudbox. Is this even possible?

Thanks
Dave Black
08-08-2007, 03:26 PM
I wrote a tool to do this exact thing. One of our modelers suggested it, and it works great. It works off the mouse input y axis. Let me check and see if I can release it to the public, as it's probably under NDA.

I'll get back in a bit about it. If I can't release it, then I can certainly point you to how it can be done.

-Dave
foreverendering
08-08-2007, 10:20 PM
Thanks Dave! I look forward to your next post
erik_j
08-23-2007, 09:23 PM
I wrote such a script that'd increase or decrease by a static amount by hotkeys which I then bound to my griffin technology usb wheel :3
however the script wasn't helpfull as max lagged terribly when turning the wheel and turning the wheel sensitivity down and script effect up would make it too coarse.

so I'm also interested in this script if it works great :)
foreverendering
08-25-2007, 05:21 PM
This is still on my wish list, I'm not sure if Dave is going to be posting again to this thread so I'll start researching more - It would definitely be handy
Cral
08-25-2007, 05:56 PM
oww, today i had exactly the same idea of a softselection script. wanted to use the same way to manipulate it like you describe.

grml, and i thought i could do something completely new :D

would be nice if you let us know, if you can release the script or not, dave. because if not, i would try to do it by myself.
foreverendering
10-18-2007, 06:46 PM
Just bumpin' this thread to see if anyone knows the answer!
mrapelje
10-19-2007, 03:21 PM
Here is one that I wrote for fun after seeing this post, it adjusts the FallOff Size by percentage, wich I though would be more useful no matter what scale you work at.

I bound the FallOff Up to my up arrow and FallOff Down to the down arrow...

Script Attached.
kikialex
10-23-2007, 08:57 AM
macroScript falloff_2
category:"MyScripts"
toolTip:""
(
rollout falloff_mouseRollout "Untitled" width:344 height:25
(
slider sld1 "" pos:[51,1] width:300 height:25 range:[0,selection[1].Falloff*2,selection[1].Falloff] orient:#horizontal ticks:0
label edt1 "" pos:[2,3] width:44 height:16

on sld1 buttonup do
(
if (selection[1] != undefined) and ((classof selection[1].baseobject) == Editable_Poly) do
(
selection[1].Falloff = sld1.Value
selection[1].useSoftSel = true
DestroyDialog falloff_mouseRollout
)

)

on falloff_mouseRollout open do
(
if (selection[1] != undefined) and ((classof selection[1].baseobject) == Editable_Poly) do
(
edt1.Text = selection[1].Falloff as string
sld1.Value = selection[1].Falloff
)
)
)

on execute do
(
try(DestroyDialog falloff_mouseRollout) catch()
if (((classof selection[1].baseobject) == Editable_Poly)) do
(
createdialog falloff_mouseRollout style:#(#style_sysmenu) pos:(mouse.screenpos-[194,10])
)
)
)
erik_j
10-23-2007, 01:17 PM
thanks for sharing!
half way there! will try to modify it for myself :)
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