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AhmadzaiWalid
03-16-2009, 10:06 PM
hello, this is my first post on cgtalk.
currently working on my first demo reel as a TD/rigger
using 3dsmax2008
what I want to do is change the radius of a sphere from say 25 to 5 slowly then jump back to 25 then slowly move to 5 and so on and so on......
like a small animation
but I want it to begin only when I select the sphere and end after the sphere is deselected.
I'm thinking the best way to do this is using maxscript.
but any method is acceptable.
I'm still a student and my maxscripting ablilties is limited but growing and I'm not sure how simple/complicated this would be.
but any help would be much appreciated.
thank you.
luigi
03-17-2009, 08:59 PM
you need to use callback for this and is a callback on selection and you can check you have selected the right object and run the script that resizes and play the animation. not sure this will be a nice thign too show in a td reel but can be a nice test for selflearning.
AhmadzaiWalid
03-18-2009, 12:31 AM
ok I've figured it out thank you for your help luigi.
I'm not planning to use it in my demo reel, it was just something that came to mind while working on my demo reel,I was just curious to as how I would do it.
just like you said more of a self-learning thing that anything else.
thank you once again.
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