January 15, 20203 Comments

Tutorial: How To Make Autodesk Maya Automatically Execute a Script When an Attribute Changes with scriptJob and scriptNode.

Making Maya automatically execute a script when an attribute changes is not as straightforward as it would seem. Getting a scriptJob to work when referenced was even more difficult and confusing as someone new to Python. It took me quite a bit of digging to get things to work, so I figured I'd share my finding to make it easier on the next person.

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May 17, 2017No Comments

Fixing CAD Mesh Data Problems In 3D Max

Fixing The Invisible Data Problem In 3D Max

I write this as I run a script on about 60,000 objects in my max scene scene.  I wanted to discuss why I had to write the  script to begin with, as it may help you in the future.  It's an automated solution to fix a common problem I run into working with engineering data and models from other applications in within 3D Studio Max.  It is a little bit of a hidden problem to begin with, but is quite prevalent once you are aware of it.   Read more