Author Topic: Note: further colors/maps are accessible via maxscript  (Read 1819 times)

2020-05-21, 20:28:56

Alex Abarca

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I'll be the first to ask:

"Note: further colors/maps are accessible via maxscript"

This shows up in CoronaMultiMap. I went to an overkill of 33 slots and all loaded fine but I can't edit the frequency parameter past 24 in the slate editor.

By the way this for a leaf map from megascans it has 33 leaves in a single map.

2025-05-25, 14:55:40
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algato

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Hello,
the same problem here.

How i can change the frequency of the maps #25, #26, #27 ....

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algato

2025-05-25, 15:48:23
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that would be really helpful if the development team could further develop the dialog box so that the number of rows could be automatically taken from the “item count”.

2025-05-26, 15:12:32
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This is either a 3ds Max UI limitation or we assumed that almost nobody will be using more than 25 items.

As the note says, you can access the colors, frequencies, and other parameters of the further items by maxscript.

This one will change the frequency of the item #33 of the currently selected Multimap to 2:

my = ((sme.getview 1).GetSelectedNodes())[1].reference
my.frequency[33] = 2

With this knowledge, it should be possible to build a script with a simple UI with the help of AI of your choice. :)

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2025-05-26, 15:45:20
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Thank you Marcin,
i will try to learn some maxscript in my old days.

Could you please give me a hint which AI is best familiar with Maxsript and how such a question to the AI could look like ?

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algato

2025-05-26, 15:57:55
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This is either a 3ds Max UI limitation or we assumed that almost nobody will be using more than 25 items.

I don't think it's limitation of 3ds Max - multi/sub-object material doesn't have such limitation. It would be nice if Corona would lift that limit once and for all, because this request keeps popping-up in the forum from time to time.
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2025-05-26, 16:22:15
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Thank you Marcin,
i will try to learn some maxscript in my old days.

Could you please give me a hint which AI is best familiar with Maxsript and how such a question to the AI could look like ?

Kind regards
algato

You're welcome!
I have some good experience with ChatGPT 4o-mini but I think most of them should be pretty good. Especially the ones featuring the "deep research" option. I would just try something straightforward like: "Write a maxscript which does X. My requirements are: Y. I would like it to have a simple UI with the following buttons: Z. I am pasting an existing script which does what I want but without the UI."
If 3ds Max throws a maxscript error, just tell it "I got this error: ..." and it will attempt to fix it. Sometimes a few tries are necessary, but generally these things are pretty darn good.
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