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05-26-2009, 07:32 PM

Hello,

I've been using LoneRobot's VisibilityAssistant for a while. It's key filter works great and inspired me to create this tool. It allows the user to create a custom filter string for any key on the selected object(s). I've also added some presets for filters that I use a lot (visibility, position and rotation).

It's not perfect yet, but works really great for me. The interface is made with .net, so it should match your Windows colors.

If anyone has any comments, tips or feature requests then I'd love to hear it.

Thanks to LoneRobot and everyone here in the maxscript forum.
Martijn

LoneRobot

05-27-2009, 10:35 AM

Hi Martijn

nice work! One thing i had wanted to implement was a callback or an ini to store the trackbar color when the script is first run. You could have the situation that say max crashes - for reasons unrelated to the script obviously :-), the trackbar is set to the filter color on restart. Not really necessary, but something i had pencilled in! I now run a version of the filter script with an ultra small UI, it appears windowless and borderless next to the selection lock toggle, and is usually setup for character custom attribute filters.

Good work, and im glad it was useful to you!

diffx

05-27-2009, 12:35 PM

Thanks Peter, I'll work on that for the next version. Also noticed that the backgroundcolor doesn't work well with the dark ui, so I'll have to take a look at that anyway.

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