MaxScript Wire parameters

[remilanza]

Hi,

I'm making this script that is supposed to create a bunch of gears in random sizes, place them and wire them correctly.

(First time I play with scripts)

 

So creating the gears and placing them went fine. But I ran into a problem for the wiring.

I have one array with the created Gears, and one array with the amount of teeths of each gear.

In my script, the formula for the rotation of any gear, will include "R and "R[i+1]", where R is my array for number of teeths in each gear.

The problem is that when I run the script, and check the wire parameters, I see that the formula still includes "R" and "R[i+1]" and not the real number it refers to.

So then ofcourse the wiring wont work!

 

Hope you understand, and thanks!

[vojtechcada]

If I get you right, when building the expression you want to insert the values of R and R[i+1] like this:

 

expr = "Rotation * " +  (R[i]/R[i+1]) as string
paramWire.connect gears[i].controller[#Rotation] gears[i+1].controller[#Rotation] expr

 

Or am I missing something?

[remilanza]

Thank you Vojtech. I guess I only needed to know about the "as string":)