Drag and drop modifiers

Tools 3ds Max
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Hey all,

Does someone know how I can call the information about A modifier I selected and drag&dropped to an other object so it made a copy and added himself to the object? I want to write the properties and the datatype to a xmlfile.

I use Maxscript and max 2010

Greetz

2

Do you mean you want to have your script know which modifier/object you dragged and dropped? Or just how to get the modifier information in general?

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I want to know the information about what I am dragging and dropping. In this case a modifier from my modifier stack to an other object. Is this possible?

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It should be possible, I think you need to work in the modify panel. modPanel.getCurrentObject() will give you either the base object or the currently selected modifier in the stack. The you should be able to access that modifiers properties and settings from there. I hope this helps.

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Alright, thanks. Will check it out tomorrow.

6

Unless you are calling the action directly from MaxScript or prompting the user to push a button after the drag and drop, the information you are looking for will be unavailable in Maxscript except by a callback. I would create a callback when your tool is running that gathers the data from a change in modifiers. Search for callbacks in the MaxScript help. Here are the callbacks that are supported:

#preModifierAdded: #(node, modifier)
#postModifierAdded: #(node, modifier)
#preModifierDeleted: #(node, modifier)
#postModifierDeleted: #(node, modifier)

Unfortunately, these callbacks will fire every time a modifier is added or deleted, so you won’t know if it happened because of a drag and drop or not. You might be able to combine it with a callback from the mod panel to determine whether to write the data or not:

#modPanelObjPreChange: undefined
#modPanelObjPostChange: undefined
#modPanelSelChanged: undefined
#ModPanelSubObjectLevelChanged: #(newSOlevelIndex, oldSOlevelIndex)

Hope this helps.

7

Still have to try it out. Will post it here if it works.
Thanks everybody for the help.

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