script - auto animate rotation

batteryoperatedlettuce · April 12th, 2007

This is the first script I ever wrote in max script after seeing an arch viz animation featuring a building "being built" by lots of rotating slabs.

I wanted to do something similar for some pathing I was doing at the time and decided to learn max script. Feel free to have a play with it. I'm spending today writing it as an object modifier. Any suggestions for interaction would be welcome.

The script requires one camera named camera01 and rotates every object in the selection 180 degrees one after the other, within a given number of frames, ordered based on their distance from camera01

Code:

 
oA=for i in $selection collect i
fn cF v1 v2 =
(
local d = (distance v1.pos $camera01.pos)-(distance v2.pos $camera01.pos)
case of
(
(d < .0): 1
(d > .0): -1
default: 0
)
)
qsort oA cF 
for p in oA do print p
global nF = 200;
global nO = oA.count;
global inc = nF/nO;
global sT = 0;
global eT = inc;
global iR = eulerangles 0 0 0;
global rB = eulerangles 0 180 0;
animationrange = interval 0 nF;
rotate selection rB;
for i in oA do
(
animate on
 (
 at time sT (rotate i iR)
 at time eT (rotate i rB)
  )
 sT = sT + inc;
 eT = eT + inc;
)

arnold@asylumstudio.co.za · April 12th, 2007

just tested your new toy and it is a lovely script... looking forward to your follow up...

batteryoperatedlettuce · April 12th, 2007

Thanks, feel free to play. I have plans to pack a few of my scripts into something more user friendly. At the moment they are just a bunch of glorified keyboard shortcuts designed to speed modeling and extend my coffee breaks.

It's quite addictive, I'm hooked at the moment on a script for automating the animation of characters playing instruments based on midi and tab data from tab music files. Not sure how useful that will be to the cg/arch viz community but I'll post it if I ever get it finished

April 12th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
batteryoperatedlettuce Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Currently in Shanghai Posts: 197 Name: Elliott Hambrook	script - auto animate rotation This is the first script I ever wrote in max script after seeing an arch viz animation featuring a building "being built" by lots of rotating slabs. I wanted to do something similar for some pathing I was doing at the time and decided to learn max script. Feel free to have a play with it. I'm spending today writing it as an object modifier. Any suggestions for interaction would be welcome. The script requires one camera named camera01 and rotates every object in the selection 180 degrees one after the other, within a given number of frames, ordered based on their distance from camera01 Code: oA=for i in $selection collect i fn cF v1 v2 = ( local d = (distance v1.pos $camera01.pos)-(distance v2.pos $camera01.pos) case of ( (d < .0): 1 (d > .0): -1 default: 0 ) ) qsort oA cF for p in oA do print p global nF = 200; global nO = oA.count; global inc = nF/nO; global sT = 0; global eT = inc; global iR = eulerangles 0 0 0; global rB = eulerangles 0 180 0; animationrange = interval 0 nF; rotate selection rB; for i in oA do ( animate on ( at time sT (rotate i iR) at time eT (rotate i rB) ) sT = sT + inc; eT = eT + inc; ) Last edited by batteryoperatedlettuce; April 12th, 2007 at 12:08 AM.

April 12th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
arnold@asylumstudio.co.za Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Johannesburg Age: 33 Posts: 309 Name: Arnold Sher	Re: script - auto animate rotation just tested your new toy and it is a lovely script... looking forward to your follow up...

April 12th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
batteryoperatedlettuce Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Currently in Shanghai Posts: 197 Name: Elliott Hambrook	Re: script - auto animate rotation Thanks, feel free to play. I have plans to pack a few of my scripts into something more user friendly. At the moment they are just a bunch of glorified keyboard shortcuts designed to speed modeling and extend my coffee breaks. It's quite addictive, I'm hooked at the moment on a script for automating the animation of characters playing instruments based on midi and tab data from tab music files. Not sure how useful that will be to the cg/arch viz community but I'll post it if I ever get it finished Last edited by batteryoperatedlettuce; April 12th, 2007 at 09:18 PM.

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