Script error: just don't get it

[Ricardo Eloy]

Hey, folks!

I'm modifyng an existing script as an exercise for my students (that's why there's a lot of commented lines in portuguese) and, all of a sudden, the macroscript simply doesn't work. I get an error telling me I can't have nested macroscripts (which I don't). It seems to not recognize the name of the macro. Here's the full script (original script by Louis Marcoux).

 

macroscript Queda category:"Perspectiva PRO"

(

 

rollout VisibilityRotate "Montagem"

(

spinner SPN_StartFrame "Início" range:[0,1000,0] type:#integer

spinner SPN_EndFrame "Fim" range:[0,1000,100] type:#integer

button BTN_CreateAnimation "Criar Animação"

 

on BTN_CreateAnimation pressed do

(

StartFrame = SPN_StartFrame

EndFrame = PN_EndFrame

-- Em seguida, inserimos outra variável para dar o tamanho da animação de cada elemento que forma o prédio em frames

AnimaSegm = 5.0

-- A linha a seguir define a diferença entre o início de cada animação, de forma que cada elemento se mova separadamente no tempo, um após o outro

OffsetAnimation = ((EndFrame-AnimaSegm) - StartFrame)/selection.count

FrameAtual = StartFrame

for a in selection do

(

with animate on

(

-- a linha a seguir garante que a posição final do objeto será a posição original dele, ou seja, com o prédio montado. A de baixo garante rotação zero

at time (FrameAtual + 5.0) a.pos.z = a.pos.z

at time (FrameAtual + 5.0) in coordsys local a.rotation.y = 0.0

-- a linha a seguir coloca os objetos muito altos (500 cm) de forma que eles caiam do céu rodando 20 graus

at time FrameAtual a.pos.z = a.pos.z + 500.0

at time FrameAtual in coordsys local a.rotation.y = degtorad(-20.0)

-- a linha a seguir elimina um keyframe defeituoso que seria o primeiro, assim a animação já começa com todo mundo a 5m do chão ao invés de o prédio começar montado

at time 0 a.pos.z = a.pos.z + 500.0

)

)

)

-- animar o objeto selecionado

FrameAtual = FrameAtual + OffsetAnimation

)

)

 

Any ideas?

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Presume you've solved or moved on by now, but...

 

OK, I get a different error than you. I'm getting "expected name" at the last line. And that looks to be a scope thing. FrameAtual is defined inside a couple of parens from here. Trying to understand what you are doing (I don't know maxscript very well at all). With that last line it looks like I'm supposed to be looking at a while loop but I can't find the "while FrameAtual

 

And there's a rollout, but there's no "make the rollout".

 

I think you need:

EndFrame = PN_EndFrame.value

to grab the value off the controls.

 

Yay, infinite loop! Wait, what, I have to kill the max process? Weak. AND I lost my edits. Thanks python for luring me into a false sense of security.

 

OK, this does something. I don't know if it does what you want... but it doesn't break.

 

macroscript Queda

category:"Perspectiva PRO"

(

 

dlgMain = newRolloutFloater "Main Dialog" 150 200

rollout VisibilityRotate "Montagem"

(

spinner SPN_StartFrame "Início" range:[0,1000,0] type:#integer

spinner SPN_EndFrame "Fim" range:[0,1000,100] type:#integer

button BTN_CreateAnimation "Criar Animação"

 

on BTN_CreateAnimation pressed do

(

StartFrame = SPN_StartFrame.value

EndFrame = SPN_EndFrame.value

-- Em seguida, inserimos outra variável para dar o tamanho da animação de cada elemento que forma o prédio em frames

AnimaSegm = 5.0

-- A linha a seguir define a diferença entre o início de cada animação, de forma que cada elemento se mova separadamente no tempo, um após o outro

OffsetAnimation = ((EndFrame-AnimaSegm) - StartFrame)/selection.count

print OffsetAnimation

FrameAtual = StartFrame

i = 0

for a in selection do

(

while (FrameAtual

with animate on

(

-- a linha a seguir garante que a posição final do objeto será a posição original dele, ou seja, com o prédio montado. A de baixo garante rotação zero

at time (FrameAtual + 5.0) a.pos.z = a.pos.z

at time (FrameAtual + 5.0) in coordsys local a.rotation.y = 0.0

-- a linha a seguir coloca os objetos muito altos (500 cm) de forma que eles caiam do céu rodando 20 graus

at time FrameAtual a.pos.z = a.pos.z + 500.0

at time FrameAtual in coordsys local a.rotation.y = degtorad(-20.0)

-- a linha a seguir elimina um keyframe defeituoso que seria o primeiro, assim a animação já começa com todo mundo a 5m do chão ao invés de o prédio começar montado

at time 0 a.pos.z = a.pos.z + 500.0

-- animar o objeto selecionado

FrameAtual = FrameAtual + OffsetAnimation

i = i + 1

)

 

)

)

)

 

addrollout VisibilityRotate dlgMain

)

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Oh yeah, the i

[Ricardo Eloy]

Thanks for taking the time, Peter!

The funny thing here is that the script actually works fine WITHOUT the macroscript instruction. If you comment the macroscript lines (and the rollout ones aswell) it runs without a problem.

One other thing that seems recurrent is that I often get an error saying that it does not recognize anything on line one AFTER the first letter of the script's name (i.e., it reads macroscript Q and stops).

I'm guessing there might be some differences between MaxScript 2008 and 2012, but I can't find any.

Once again, thank you for taking the time. ;-)