extract maxscript from attribute holder

By Gspoutnik · 2011-02-03

Description

Hello maxscript friend's
I would like to know if it's possible to "extract" maxscript from custom attribute for refine or re-edit it.
i do a lot of rigs with maxscript custom attribute but i don't know how tweaks them when i want to reused them i new projet.
All i know is how to rebuild all from scratch...

Thank's !!!

Comments (3)

Anubis · 2011-02-04

If you know the name of your CAs and its owner, just use custAttributes.getDef
Lets say you have CA named "camControls" and it added to the top modifier...

-- example CA:
ca = attributes camControls ( ... )

-- added to top modifier:
custAttributes.add $.modifiers[1] ca

-- so, get the def back:
ca = custAttributes.getDef $.modifiers[1].camControls
-- and redefine:
attributes camControls redefine:ca
(
	-- new contens here...
)

I'm wondering about the same thing

tronotrond · 2011-05-25

I have the same issue as the original poster and I'm not sure if I understand your solution, Anubis. I'm fairly new to maxscript so that's probably why. ;)

I got the original Custom Attribute code extracted. It consists of several sliders in one Custom_Attributes rollout. I want to look up the sliders already there and adjust the width and alignment of them - without breaking any wire parameters that I've added earlier.

The reason I want to do this is to add a "Set Key" button to the right of each slider. I can code this from scratch, but I can't figure out how to modify the old code..
I have several rigs I want to do this with, so automating this with a script would save me tons of time.

Any help is highly appreciated :)

Anubis · 2011-05-25

I'm sure you'll do this more quickly by hand
than making a script to automatize it.

Lets say you have something like...

slider s1 "S1..." range:[-30,30,0]
slider s2 "S2..." range:[-30,30,0]

...and the editing w'd been...

slider s1 "S1..." range:[-30,30,0] width:110 across:2
button b1 "A" width:20 align:#right
slider s2 "S2..." range:[-30,30,0] width:110 across:2
button b2 "A" width:20 align:#right

Also s'd add events to this buttons:

on b1 pressed do (...)