3DS Max script help

[aaouviz]

Off topic, I know. But this is my fav forum and I know you lot are super smart, away from the Corona world too...

I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can script an action to toggle OFF snaps when I provide a hotkey.

I can TOGGLE snaps easily enough with a script, but I want to disable (aka turn off) snaps even if it's already off. The problem with the toggle is that if I press my hotkey it might turn it on when I actually want it off.

The purpose of this is that I want to combine an "Unhide all" with Toggling snaps OFF so my heavy scenes don't freeze up when I unhide a lot of geometry.

I hope this is clear! Thanks for any tips.

[Frood]

but I want to disable (aka turn off) snaps even if it's already off.

Seems like you need just "snapmode.active=false"?


Good Luck

[aaouviz]

Right you are sir! Big thank you!

(Though, I swear I did try this... must have got some combination of it wrong somewhere.)

Thanks again.

[aaouviz]

Hi hi,

Another maxscript related question seeing as you answered the last so well :)

I want to turn off a specific layer (the layer is called 100_SS) with a simple little MaxScript

I know this must be possible, but my maxscript skills are not quite up-to-scratch...

Thanks in advance!

[clemens_at]

try this:

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((layerManager.getLayerFromName "100_SS")).ishidden = true

[aaouviz]

Seems to work!

Thanks mate, appreciate it :D

[aaouviz]

Ok, now I'm here to bother you smart folk once again...

I have this following script:

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((LayerManager.getLayerFromName "100_SS")).current = true

macros.run "Layers" "SceneExplorerSetActiveLayerAsParentLayer"

((LayerManager.getLayerFromName "0")).current = true
It's intended to set my "100_SS" layer as current, move the selected objects to that layer and then set default layer back as current. It works perfect :D

However, I also want to make this more useful by turning it into either a button or keyboard shortcut. I've done this previously with other snippets of code with the following:

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macroScript AACollapseLayers
category:"1AAScripts"
toolTip:""
(CODE GOES HERE
This doesn't work. ‎Parenthesis "( )" in the wrong place, or something, but no matter what I try, I can't get this to work. Any tips?

Much appreciated!

[clemens_at]

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macroScript AACollapseLayers category:"1AAScripts" -- buttonText:"insert here"
(
((LayerManager.getLayerFromName "100_SS")).current = true
macros.run "Layers" "SceneExplorerSetActiveLayerAsParentLayer"
((LayerManager.getLayerFromName "0")).current = true
)

[aaouviz]

Amazing, thank you again mate.

Super helpful stuff, my workflow is buzzing now thanks to your help