3DS Max slice script

[Chris MacDonald]

Hey chaps,

 

I'm looking for a script/plugin along the lines of Populate Terrain to slice geometry into a grid - but unlike Populate I want it to be in 3 axes, not just 1. I hope this makes sense?

 

I have been managing to do it with the slice plane, but as you can imagine creating a slice, then moving it a meter, creating another slice, and so on can be very time consuming.

[Nicolai Bongard]

Not aware of a script, but you could make an actual plane, copy as many of them as you need (just type in the number when copy-moving it 1 meter), attach the copies together and use that poly object as a slice? Would save you a lot of moving the slice plane at least.

[Nic H]

there are a few of these scripts around I have used deconstructor in the past

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/deconstructor

[martinhoura]

also rayfire slice might do the trick

http://rayfirestudios.com/feature/slice

[Chris MacDonald]

Not aware of a script, but you could make an actual plane, copy as many of them as you need (just type in the number when copy-moving it 1 meter), attach the copies together and use that poly object as a slice? Would save you a lot of moving the slice plane at least.

 

Can you elaborate on how you would do this? I can't seem to find a way of using a separate object as a slice plane? Unless you mean as a boolean?

Edited June 23, 2015 by Macker

[Nicolai Bongard]

Boolean is correct. It is far from ideal, as it sometimes behaves suboptimally (alltough it seems to work quite well with planes compared to more complex geometry), but if you have a lot of slices to do, it could be easyer than your original method of slicing each and every slice individually. I am unable to check currently as my workstation is rendering, but i seem to recall there being a couple of different settings on the boolean, and one of them working as a slice.

[Chris MacDonald]

It worked well, good shout.

 

Thanks everyone.