Uses Maxscript to process channel data. See the Data Channel Modifier topic in the MAXScript Help for a detailed explanation of this operator.
Maxscript Process rollout
- Edit Script button
- Opens an editor for the Maxscript Process operator's code. The operator has a default script that demonstrates how to set up the "Process()" function to manipulate channel data. This script can be edited to perform custom functions.
- Output: Element Type
- The type of data the script should output, for example vertex or face.
- Output: Index Channel
- Sets the data channel index for the output, if any. Can be "position", "normal" or "map channel", or "none" for no channel.
- Output: Data Type
- The type of data that should be produced. For example, if the operator should produce vertex position data, this should be set to "Point3 Array", where the array contains a Pont3 value for each vertex in the mesh .
The Output parameters are all supplied to the MAXScript process() function as parameters.
Using the default script
When a Maxscript Process operator is added to a Data Channel Modifier stack, it contains a default script. To use this script:
- Create a box and add a Data Channel Modifier to it.
- In the Data Channel Modifier UI, add a Vertex Inpurt, a Maxscript Process, and a Vertex Output.
- Select the Maxscript Process operator, and set the
Output options to the following:
- Element Type: Vertices
- Index Channel: Position
- Data Type: Point3 Array
- Now scrub the time slider. You will see the box moving along the X axis, with the X axis values increasing or decreasing in sync with the time slider. If you open the Listener, you will see some output from the script.