Script
By sergo · Credited author: Sergo Pogosyan · 2007-03-18
This script helps you to hide diagonal, oblique edges in regular patterns to make mesh consisting of the rectangular polygons.Script just hides the longest edge of the face. In most cases it's the diagonal edge if your mesh is more or less regular and was made of rectangular polygons.
Object must be an 'editable mesh'. No conversation occurs in the script.
HOWTO:
Select faces, polygons or elements with diagonal edges then press command button. Edges will be hidden and selected.
Run script from any directory by Macroscript->Run Script command
Place icon bitmap files to the maxroot/UI/Icons folder if you need button images
In Customize dialog find "Sergo Pogosyan" category and "Select and Hide Longest Edge" command
Place this command to the toolbar, menu or quad.
Can not run
maycon · 2014-07-12
Helped me a lot
Thank you! add +1
Nik · 2013-02-19
Works correctly than other similar tools. Others can not recycle hi-poly topology.
In the 2012 max it works, just required convert object to Editable mesh
sergo · 2007-07-19
I'm happy if this script helps you a little, but to be true, there is much clever script for hiding diagonals. My script works well, but not in all cases.
I didn't think that this task may have such a simple solution.
Here it is - Quadrangulate
If you open this script you'll be surprised - it uses bomb spacewarp!
Great respect to Gene Crucean!
Stokes · 2007-07-19
Damned clever and dead simple... my favorite kind of hack. I wish I'd thought of it the last time I had to script something to hide diagonals!
David "Stokes" Stokes
Technical Artist, Blue Fang Games
appius · 2012-12-06
it seems it doesn't work in max 2012...