Yes, I know, a month without posts. I’m the suck. I really should be putting more and better tech art bits up here. My only excuse is that with work, the change over from Max 8 to 9, and a fourteen month old daughter who is starting to walk I’ve been a bit distracted.
Anyway, DJ JoeG from upstate NY pulled himself away from playing MaxJack long enough to ask if I could gin up a script that would give him the Selection Set dropdown list in a floating dialog window.
But of course, Joe….but of course.
Just put JoesSelSetList in your \ui\macroscripts folder and either restart Max or do a macros.load() command from the Listener. You’ll find the tool, “Floating Selection Set List”, under the “Joe’s Tools” category in the Customize UI dialog. Assign it to a hotkey, put it on a quad menu, or drag it to the tool bar.
Due to an oversight in MaxScript the only time the dropdown list won’t update itself is when you make changes to the selection sets, either making new ones, deleting existing ones, or renaming them. This has been fixed in Max 9 and the script file is smart enough to detect if you’re running 9 (lucky bastards) and add enable that functionality for you.
Enjoy!
