Forestpack instead of Clone and Align for thousands of objects? HELP

[Morne]

Hi

I have thousands of NON INSTANCED objects. I want to instance a new object to the pivot of each of those objects. ForestPack?
Max Clone and Align is useless

[Morne]

Looks good. For now I did it old scool, but next time will use this tip from Itoosoft
Reply from the Itoosoft guys:

"For these purposes there is the Reference Objects - Distribute Using: Pivot mode under Tree Editor - Creation Tools"

[voltron7]

Good to hear and thanks for posting your solution

[joconnell]

If it's only a single object that you want to swap in for the rest, have a look at the baseobject property in maxscript

If you make a scene with 100 point helpers and one single teapot, try selecting all the points and running:

for i = 1 to selection.count do
(
i.baseobject = $teapot_01
)

[Morne]

If it's only a single object that you want to swap in for the rest, have a look at the baseobject property in maxscript

If you make a scene with 100 point helpers and one single teapot, try selecting all the points and running:

for i = 1 to selection.count do
(
i.baseobject = $teapot_01
)

Thanks John. That sure is handy. I had about 3 times 16 000 "helpers" that needed to be raplaced by 3 single new objects
Clone and Align didn't want to know anything if I selected more than 2000 objects at a time

[thablanch]

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/copy-replace