help with the slice modifier.

[craigball]

hi i wanted to slice my building in 2 to render a section so i selected all and slaped a slice mod on it. now evey object has a slice mod onit is there a way of removing them off all the objects at once?

[anton]

Here is a script that iterates through all the objects in the max scene and if it finds an object that has a slice modifier it will delete it:

for o in objects do        --iterates through all the objects in scene
(
   if o.modifiers.count != 0 do        --if the object has modifiers
   (
       for m = o.modifiers.count to 1 by -1 do        --iterates backwards through the stack to allow deletion
       (
           if classof o.modifiers[m] == SliceModifier do deletemodifier o m        --if it finds a slice modifier it will delete it
       )
   )
)

 

Make sure you have a backup copy of the scene before you run the script. I've tested it on a few objects with multiple modifiers on it and it run perfectly.

[craigball]

cool where do you put the code???

[SandmanNinja]

in a text file and then load it into a user button or quad menu or right-click menu.

 

you can also copy the text into your copy/paste buffer and then edit a new macro and then paste it in there.

[csd]

You don't necessarily have to slice everything, you can simply use camera clipping. Set the distance of the clipping planes and everything outside of the clipping planes with be invisible.

[craigball]

You don't necessarily have to slice everything, you can simply use camera clipping. Set the distance of the clipping planes and everything outside of the clipping planes with be invisible.

 

Really thats cool dose it work with vray physicle cameas? do you know of any good tutorils for doing it?

 

thaks for that

[csd]

yea, it works with the v-ray physical camera, it's in the miscellaneous parameters. Here's a link to a page about the v-ray camera.

 

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150R1/vrayphysicalcamera_params.htm

 

Just check the clipping box and specify the near and far clipping range.