Blinds/curtains max script

[pailhead]

Was there a script that created an effect of randomly open/closed blinds frome simple plane objects. I have found a script called "blinds" but it only creates a single smart object.

[BrianKitts]

if it's just a simple shade....

 

I typically draw a single spline inside my windows for blinds, and add a negative extrusion on all the splines. Make sure they're all copies not instances, then select your splines and run the following script to randomize the extrusion lengths

 

for o in $ do o.modifiers[#extrude].amount = random 0 -140

Edited May 11, 2010 by BrianKitts

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

There you go with your fancy scripting again.

 

Dusan, Not sure if this is the one you have, but I used this one a few years ago for a project.

http://www.jonseagull.com/downloads.shtml#blinds

[pailhead]

I cracked the case

 

J. Seagull script is the one i found now, which creates one smart object. The "fassaden blinds" is the one i was probably thinking of, but i forgot it was that simple. The idea of randomly extruding seems quite awesome, i have to learn scripting. Still, ill have to draw all the lines, if there isn't an easy script way of selecting just the top edge of a bunch of quads in a single object.

 

*edit*

 

So many people from SF

Edited May 12, 2010 by pailhead

[BrianKitts]

There you go with your fancy scripting again.

 

its the healthiest of my addictions......

[pailhead]

What does this mean?

 

-- Unknown property: "amount" in undefined

[pailhead]

I drew a bunch of lines. Added extrude modifier to them, and then run the script line, but all it does is it takes a random number from 0 to -140 and applies it to the selection.

[BrianKitts]

yup.... that's pretty much it, as I mentioned in the first post, if you'e just looking for a simple pulldown shade.....

[pailhead]

But it applies the same number to the entire selection. I don't have time to learn max script now but i would like to test this feature in this render. I took a look at the reference but i cant figure it out. Am i using your line wrong, or it needs something else?

[BrianKitts]

Nope you're doing it right, you just skipped my previous comment that they have to be copies. If they are all the same after you run the script that means that you instanced instead of copied the splines. (They all need to be unique).

 

select them all and either click on the make unique button in the modify panel. (select yes on the unique with respect to each other? pop-up)..... or, right click in the viewport and select "convert to editable spline" to break the instancing.

 

Then run the script.

[pailhead]

ahhh, they are not instances, but i may have added the extrude on top of all of them, so that particular modifier is instanced, even though the lines are separate objects. I'm not really sure how to add a modifier to a selection without it being instanced. Could this step be added as another line of script?

 

Works flawlessly when they are all different.

[jinsley]

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For o in $ do o.modifiers[#extrude].amount = random 0 -140

 

thank you sir.