MAX help... (urgent)

[Neilg]

Forgive me being short, i'm in a rush and ive just managed to knock my mouse, erasing the entire post i had written before...

Say ive got a series of objects with a pivot point at the edge, movement locked, rotation in all but one axis locked. How would I then go about using either a map/mesh/deflector to get these to rotate?
Something like a wall of pivoting tiles making patterns in the wind. If it makes a difference, they all need to stay seperate objects and while not exactly heavy, theyre a far cry from a box.

I know this can be done, ive even done it myself ages ago... But I cant remember for the life of me how to it or what any of the tools used were called

Thanks in advance for any help.

[dlparisi]

Maybe not eacxtly what you need (they're displaced and are one object) but Charley cam up with a nice solution for wind tiles...http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...ic.php?t=19135

[Neilg]

Here's a shot of the geometry I'm dealing with...



Something like throwing a noise modifier over the whole thing and have it only affect the rotation on one axis would be perfect... but you cant do that.

[instinct]

why not ? you can assign a float noise to one axis only. you might want to script that tho to get different seeds so they dont move all the same but with an offset.

Regards,
Thorsten

[instinct]

http://scriptspot.com/3ds-max/randomizer-1

looks exactly like what you need to me. add noise controller and tweak all axis 0 besides the one you need...

Thorsten

[Neilg]

why not ?

Well, I actually meant its not obvious and I cant figure it out, not that its not in there. 'I cant figure out how to do that' is what it shouldve said...

Thanks for the pointers, i'm having a dig around now