So I’m making some decent progress with my accessory rail maxscript, I’ve watched a few starter tutorials and I now know that MaxScript works similarly to photoshop actions in that anything you do in the program can be recorded and these actions can be used as part of a script.
I’ve actually simplified the original script design a lot, the rails no longer loft along a spline, but instead a rollout is generated in which the user inputs the number of rails needed and the rails are generated upon the “Create Rail” button being pressed.
The script works, sort of, it clones the correct number of rails, and it offsets them, but it offsets them in the wrong direction, an easy fix I should think.
Then all I need to do is figure out how to append the start and end grooves onto the rail, then weld them all together.
UPDATE:
it now offsets as normal
UPDATE OF THE UPDATE:
It now collapses the meshes into one.
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