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Almir

01-14-2009, 07:37 AM

Hey guys,

I put all of my vray proxy stuff on a seperate layer, most of them are grouped.
I set the layer display to bounding box to save performance, and back to shaded to make adjustments.
Now, I want to write a script that:
-Determine the layer of the selected object(s).
-Set that Layer display mode to box.

foo = $.layer
foo.boxmode = true
//Or
foo.display = #boundingbox (not sure about this syntax)

The problem is most of proxy stuff are grouped, so when I select a group and try to anything on the $ max simply returns an error, listing $ gives me back $selection instead of the usual node properties $Editable_Meshetcetc, this the first time I deal with groups with maxscript and for some reason they are not treated as nodes.
any help guys?
thanks.
~sion

xcise

01-14-2009, 09:41 AM

groups are object sets. you can check "ObjectSet Values" in maxscript reference for more help.

there is a .count method to get the group's object count. then you can find any other object with selection[<index>] method:

myselection = $; --or: myselection = selection
for i=1 to myselection.count do
(
thisobj = myselection[i]
move thisobj [(i*10),0,0]
)

thisobj is a node/object from the group...

also you can use this for single objects to set them as bounding boxes in viewports:
<node>.boxMode = <true/false>

Almir

01-14-2009, 11:45 AM

foolayer = selection[1].layer
if foolayer.boxmode == true then
(
foolayer.boxmode = false
)
else
(
foolayer.boxmode = true
)
--end
thanks a lot dude, worked like a charm.
~sion

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