By kogden · 2009-03-30Hi!
First time post here, and a first attempt at a script :D
So everyone is aware, I'm a fx artist and want to learn a bit of max script so it can speed my work flow up a little :). At the moment i am not wanting to make full blown tools for a team, just little things for myself.
Also with this script i got everything out of the maxscript help docs, not from tuts or other scripts :)
I got the idea from other scripts out there like MBFacture and the plug-in called Rayfire. both very cool and very useful tools!
This is my first attempt at any sort of script and is basically very buggy :(. but it was more of an exercise in how for loops work...
Anyways thought i might just post it so people could give me some feedback on it!
Again this is my very first attempt at doing a script, so please be gentle!
Cheers Kieran.
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/*
Created by Kieran Ogden-Brunell March 2009
This script should break a selected object into chunks
Good for stone/rock debris
--FOR LATER REVISION--
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- Pick button for object
-List box for multi objects
-bounding box function to drive crack plane sizes (currently this is a hardcoded value of 120 in scene size)
-dialog box for user enable cancel or continue
-save "tick" option, so scene is saved before calculation
-tick option to keep orginal mesh
-Iteration feature to run the simulation over the first pass cracks
- minimum size threshold for breaking on first pass and iteration
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KNOW ISSUE"S
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-Crash's MAX randomly if used to much.
-Crash's MAX if gc() is used
-Process breaks if the crack planes are too small compared to the user object
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*/
rollout kobCracks "Crack Geometry"
(
edittext _oName "Name" fieldWidth: 160 height:16
spinner _pAmount "Crack Density" type:#integer range:[1,20,5]
spinner _pSegs "Crack Detail" type:#integer range:[3,12,7]
spinner _pNoiseHieght "Crack Shear" range:[0,85,55]
spinner _pSmoothAmount "Internal Smooth" range:[0,90,24]
-- checkbox _keepOrgObj "Keep Original Object"
-- on _keepOrgObj changed theState do
-- (
-- copy $
-- hide $
-- messagebox ("Your orginal object has been copied and hidden! Please select mesh " )
-- )
button _create "Create Cracks" width:150 height:50 tooltip:"Crack Object!"--this should eventually name the seperate chunks!!!!!!!
on _create pressed do
(
if _pAmount.value >= 15 then messagebox "WARNING: Could become unstable!" --warns if you have too many planes need a cancel or continue dialog
DisableSceneRedraw
(
_firstPlane = null
for j = 1 to _pAmount.value do -- created the rest of the planes need to complete the spinners value
(
p= (plane())--creates plane from the exposed spinner's
p.name = uniquename "cutPlanes"
if (j == 1) then _firstPlane = p
p.length = 150
p.width = 150
p.lengthsegs = _pSegs.value
p.widthsegs =_pSegs.value
p.wirecolor = [random 0 255,random 0 255,random 0 255]
addModifier p (Noisemodifier()) --adding noise modifier to plane
p.modifiers[#Noise].seed = random 1 1000
p.modifiers[#Noise].scale = random 45 85
p.modifiers[#Noise].fractal = on
p.modifiers[#Noise].strength = [(random 0.0 1),(random 0.0 1),(random _pNoiseHieght.value (_pNoiseHieght.value+5))]
addModifier p (smooth()) --adding smooth modifier to plane
p.modifiers[#smooth].autosmooth = on
p.modifiers[#smooth].threshold = _pSmoothAmount.value
rotate p (eulerAngles (random 0 360) (random 0 360) (random 0 360)) --rotates planes in "for" a random value from 0 to 360 degrees
convertTo p (Editable_Poly) --convert to edit poly
if (j > 1) then polyop.attach _firstPlane p
)
-- this is the pro cutter section currently works with one cut
a = _firstPlane
c = $
ProCutter.CreateCutter #(a) 1 True True False True True
ProCutter.AddStocks a #(c) 1 1
Delete a
-- Rename objects to the name specified
all = $cutPlanes*
all.name = uniquename _oName.text
)
EnableSceneRedraw()
-- gc()
)
button _HowToBox "Info" tooltip:"Info"
on _HowToBox pressed do
(
messagebox "Create an Object or use an existing prop. \n Select the mesh you want to crack. \nPress Create Cracks to Run!"
)
button _aboutBox "About" tooltip:"About" --align:#right
on _aboutBox pressed do
(
messagebox "This script creates cracks in selected objects\nCreated by Kieran Ogden-Brunell 2009"
)
)
createdialog kobCracks width:220 height:220
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