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No i didn't, but i think it's not free, right? I saw it has few very interesting features, which i really would love to see in Chaos scatter though.
If you know free scattering plugin for 3ds Max that is as capable as Chaos scatter and is well integrated to work flawlessly with Corona, then please let me know, i would dearly want to try it. Otherwise i find your question pointless, you may as well ask why Corona itself was created when there was plenty of established renderers on the market already.
Here is the short answer:
This applies to both 3ds Max 2024 and 2025 with Corona 11 Hotfix 1:
On the other note: Where the objects created by having 240 separate splines and 240 separate scatters? Wouldn't it be easier to attach all the splines and have 1 spline, and just 1 scatter? From the attached screenshots, I think that would very well work and there would have not been a need to convert so many scatters.
Hi
You can do that by your own if you like (just put the code into a macroscript). But that way of "programming" is not the way to go at all, even if it works. What is does, is simply "emulate" being a user who selects the scatters and clicks that "convert" button. If the Corona team would decide to rename the button, it would not work any more. This is all crap, we need a proper maxscript interface for doing it correctly. But in this case (scatter object), that option would perfectly fit into the Corona listener. No need for any additional button, and it would process the scatters way faster.
The question was not coming out from curiosity, but from trying to understand what you are after, and trying to be helpful.
Converting Scatter geometry to Max, even for one scatter object, can be very taxing for the scene - even if the instanced mesh can be simple, creating a large number of objects in the scene, which the conversion does, will most probably lead to scene freeze. I am not talking about hundreds of scatters. This will surely be the same for ForestPack conversion (if it does not attach all the scattered geometry into one object).
Unfortunately there is not way to do this in batch. I was trying to create a batch script for you with maxscript for this, but seems there is no way to do it.
This will be registered as a feature request, but this is not something that is regularly done, I believe.
If having the geometry "on place" was the end goal (given the screenshots, I think these are linear scatters), maybe other ways of modeling could be beneficial, e.g. the array modifier (which has solid scattering options too), which would later be easily converted into mesh.
I don't see any other option than to convert them one by one, I am afraid.
Here is another (ugly) one for you: select the scatter objects you want to convert and then run this snippet, I hope it works for you:Code: [Select](
AInterface = (dotNetClass "Autodesk.Max.GlobalInterface").Instance
cPanel= (windows.getHWndData (AInterface.UtilGetCoreInterface16()).CommandPanelRollup.Hwnd)[7]
max modify mode
sObjects=for o in selection where (classof o==ChaosScatter) collect o
for o in sObjects do (
format "Processing '%'\n" o.name
select o
ConvertButton=windows.getChildHWND cPanel "Convert to Max geometry"
windows.sendMessage ConvertButton[1] 0x201 0 0
windows.sendMessage ConvertButton[1] 0x202 0 0
-- optional, deletes the scatter object after creating meshes:
-- delete o
)
)
Good Luck
But why do you want them converted?
If you can provide some more details, I may be able to help you better.
Hi there, I received some Models from a client where it has more than 200 scatters objects and I need to convert them to mesh, is there a way to convert them in batch or an easy way to do it, like I said, theres more than 200 scatters, its gonna take a lot of time to do this.Making a mesh snapshot is probably a fast way to do it (Choose the Scatter object you want to convert > Top Menu > Tools > Snapshot, choose Mesh), but it would not retain the individual instances, every Scatter object would become a mesh, not sure if that's what you're after. The advantage is that you can select all of the Scatter objects and when choosing Snapshot it will convert all of them in one go.
It will be great to have this operation in the Lister too.
