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Vimeo said it would get the HD working "later," so I posted the youtube as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDk8...ature=youtu.be

Big shout out to:
Juan Martinez (Monster)
Laurens Corjin (Xoliul)
Anubis
barigazy

These guys were super helpful and were nice enough to take time out of their day to break things down for me and help me with my problems throughout this script.

Thank you so much!

hell yea, im excited to use this man.
thanks for sharing and for your hard work!

Cool, thanks! Definitely will try this out!

I will have to try this out soon.

BTW, I like your quad menus. How did you get them to be colorful?

Looking forward to testing this,thanks alot

Thanks guys! I hope everyone likes it!

Computron - it is in the customize user interface > color tab somewhere... I honestly couldn't tell you which one to change because when you do change it, it doesn't actually update until you restart max. Kinda frustrating but you have to go through and really just look for anything and everything and change the color, restart, and try again. lol

Can't drag it onto a toolbar for some reason. I put it in the scripts folder since I don't have a macroscripts folder. Is that ok? Or should I just make one and put it in there?

Looks like a really great tool. Thanks!

C: \Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\UI\MacroScripts

or

C: \Users\jeremiahb\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\201 2 - 64bit\enu\UI\usermacros
(this one is you YOUR user folder and the AppData Folder is hidden by default. You can unhide it in your folder options.)

However... if you drag it into the viewport from anywhere on your system it will actually create a copy and put it in the AppData folder and run it from there.

As for why it is not dragging onto a toolbar I am not sure because I don't have enough info. Did it give you an error? It there no "Bigley" Catagory? Or you can see it but it won't let you drag it onto the bar?
If you can see it in the list... make sure you are in the Toolbar Tab when you try and drag it into a toolbar and not in the keyboard tab.

Hope that helps

I knew it had to be something on my end. :P

Got it figured out, thanks!

One question, any plans to add a OBJ normal map preset? Mainly for handplane and dDo use.

Haven't used either so I guess I don't know what you are talking about :/

Sorry,

Handplane is a tangent space calculator/converter. Basically, feed it your low poly and an object space map and you can convert it into the correct tangent space map for your project/engine.

dDo is a sort of texture base generator that plugs into photoshop. Object space maps help with applying direction based details and such.

Oh! you meant an Object Space Normal Map Preset...
for some reason I thought you meant load in a lowpoly kinda like xnormal does. I read the OBJ as an OBJ file.

Is it really standard? I mean yeah these 2 new programs use it, but I would be curious as to how many are actually doing this on a good number of assets in a production pipeline.

If I do it is probably not going to be anytime soon :/ I need to get on some art.

Second the object space checkbox, I use it on the majority of assets I create now that handplane is out.

Great stuff, I am going to have to give this Mat ID workflow a go.

Originally Posted by jeremiah_bigley

Big shout out to:
Juan Martinez (Monster)
Laurens Corjin (Xoliul)
Anubis
barigazy

These guys were super helpful and were nice enough to take time out of their day to break things down for me and help me with my problems throughout this script.

Thank you so much!

great job on this one Bigley! will try it out and try spread it
btw, about the quad color changing, hitting "apply colors" doesn't work for changing your quad's colors? i couldn't find the place to change the colors of your quads in the colors tab, but for everything else, apply colors works for me just fine

Originally Posted by tsabszy

great job on this one Bigley! will try it out and try spread it
btw, about the quad color changing, hitting "apply colors" doesn't work for changing your quad's colors? i couldn't find the place to change the colors of your quads in the colors tab, but for everything else, apply colors works for me just fine

Hey, about the colors...
.in Customize User Interface
...Colors tab
.....Elements: Roll-outs
.....Scheme: Custom Colors (make sure this is selected, or the changes you make in the elements will not take place)

Hope this helps

Is this only for Max 2012?

Bigley! Perfect timing Can't wait to try this out for my bake. Thanks!

Just finished up the videos, this looks fantastic, I can't wait to try it out.

Cool man! Makes me want to model something, so I can normal map something. Alas, I'm just a lazy animator.

Cheers Jeremiah, seems like a lot of sleepless nights went into creating this

Quack! - hmm. Yeah I just might have to at some point in the future. There are still a couple more presets that I wanted to add so I will try and include it in that list. But right now I really want to start a model >.< been scripting for almost 3 months straight.

Inhert - I have tested it on max versions down to 2010 because that is what I had on my system. So officially I support 2010, 2011, 2012. I don't see any reason it wouldn't run on newer versions unless they removed any of the code I used. I don't know if it works on 2009 or lower. Just have to give it a try. Would be awesome if everyone could let me know though.

tsabszy - OH! I must have been tired when I read computron's question. I was thinking rollouts... not quads. There is an Advanced Options button under Customize User Interface > Quads Tab. I am an idiot. Sorry guys.
And yeah there is a button are a couple of color options that don't change whenever you change the color unless you restart max. I know for sure the color of buttons that are activated or "pushed in" is one. Took me forever to find it. Got to a point where I just made everything orange that sounded right and restarted.

monster - ha ha! You don't have to be so nice I know my code is pretty terrible! I have a long way to go to be able to script like you do man.

rocneasta - lol you have no idea.


And I am glad all you guys are excited! I really didn't know if anyone else would care to use this... because it is a bit of a strange workflow when you think about it.

I'm at work so I can't test it out right now, but do we have to name the highpoly parts the same way you do in the video? Or is there a way to change that in the script to pick up something like "piece_high," and pick the all of the objects with that suffix?

yeah I think I should be able to spend one more week or so to do an update on the highpoly naming system. I would like it to hold the original name of the highpolys... and not rename them to "Highpoly_*" I will see if I can't get to it after my current project which will be wrapped up in a week.

Hey Bigley,

I tried your script but I get this messages on the images.
I run the script, then when I select my lowpoly. I get the first message. Then when I deselect I get the second one.

Any ideas on what the problem is?

Thanks.