Maxscript Help

[James Vella]

Hey guys, just finishing a quick script I need to run however I'm stuck on one last piece - any help would be greatly appreciated

 

I want to edit the Corona Conversion script so I can have it override proxy if it already exists in that location, but I don't know how to enable Boolean function.

http://www.racoon-artworks.de/CoronaConverter/mxsDocumentation.html

 

Proxy Converter:

.convertProxies() [location:] [overwrite: ]

 

Currently I have:

CoronaProxyConverter.convertProxies() true

 

This works, but I want to add overwrite so it does not ask if it already exists - just overwrites the proxy

 

thanks

 

 

edit:

small success, no cigar...

 

I want to supress this dialogue...

---------------------------

Corona Proxy Export

---------------------------

One or more CoronaProxy files do already exist on Disk, do you want to overwrite them?

 

(If you press "No", the existing files will be used for the generated Proxies)

---------------------------

Yes No

---------------------------

 

This is what the maxscript tells me...

CoronaProxyConverter.convertProxies() "overwrite:true"

Generated CoronaProxy: X:\Proxies\AG11_4.cgeo

(interval 0f 100f)

"overwrite:true"

 

It looks all blue and no errors woo! but still get the dialogue box that I have to confirm every time :S

Edited March 20, 2017 by redvella

[Nils Norgren]

You can try putting the expression inside the "Quiet mode" context

 

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2017/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_438AC4EB_2AA9_4EF8_BD1F_4EC8A034A316_htm

 

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2017/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_A1FFEDE0_9B92_4CD5_8127_76AA393D5143_htm

 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php?t-680291.html

 

I don't use Corona, but this is a general way to "force" max to do something without popping up dialogs every time.

 

Hope this helps,

 

-Nils

Edited March 20, 2017 by NilsN

[James Vella]

thanks Nils,

 

I had to edit the Corona Conversion script as it had an override in there if anyones interested its line 380...

 

if doesFileExist outpath then (

if askForOverwrite then(

overwriteFiles = true

askForOverwrite = false

 

 

Ive got nearly everything working - just stuck on one line if you know what is the problem?

 

I'm trying to run the command-line code for relink bitmaps and its stuck on the array line...

 

 

if doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\C_Lib.mse") and doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink_Lib.mse") and doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink Bitmaps.mse") then (

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\C_Lib.mse") quiet:true

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink_Lib.mse") quiet:true

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink Bitmaps.mse") quiet:true

) else (

MessageBox "Relink Bitmaps files are not in the default installation path. Try reinstalling."

)

 

sceneRelinkBitmaps

searchArr: #("M:/Stock","X:/")

ignoreCase: true

ignoreExtension: true

recursive: true

undoOn: false

lowMemory: true

allMaps: true

progress: progressBar

 

-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: C:\Users\render\Desktop\Relink.ms; position: 628; line: 9

-- MAXScript FileIn Exception:

-- Syntax error: at keyword parameter, expected

-- In line: searchArr: #

[James Vella]

ok working with this code, fault was with the array (you don't need to type array you just put the array) In this case I only need 1 directory so I'm not using an array #(""), just 1 directory ""

 

if doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\C_Lib.mse") and doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink_Lib.mse") and doesFileExist ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink Bitmaps.mse") then (

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\C_Lib.mse") quiet:true

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink_Lib.mse") quiet:true

fileIn ((getDir #userScripts)+"\\Relink Bitmaps\\Relink Bitmaps.mse") quiet:true

) else (

MessageBox "Relink Bitmaps files are not in the default installation path. Try reinstalling."

)

 

sceneRelinkBitmaps "M:\R&D\James\Corona Remote\3DTest\assets" ignoreCase:true ignoreExtension:true undoOn:false lowMemory:true allMaps:true progress:true