Maxscript Vray What does it all mean?

[vlado]

Recursion is one of the fundamental concepts of programming, so nothing dangerous there You just have to be careful to have a terminating condition when the recursion must stop.

For the forum messages formatting, you can use tags enclosed in brackets, like [ b ] some text [ /b ] for bold, [ code ] and [ /code ] for a block of code etc. There should not be intervals inside the brackets, I just added them so that you can see the codes.

Best regards,
Vlado

[^Lele^]

Recursion is one of the fundamental concepts of programming, so nothing dangerous there You just have to be careful to have a terminating condition when the recursion must stop.

Couldn't help but have a genuine laugh at this.
I DO know something about recursion, and also know something about MISSING terminating conditions too.

[RErender]

Couldn't help but have a genuine laugh at this.
I DO know something about recursion, and also know something about MISSING terminating conditions too.

There's always task manager...

[rajdarge]

thanks for that format help Vlado, I also discovered by accident that if you click on the [IMG] button at the bottom it gives you a list of the VBcode legal to use.

So here is another attempt at posting the code in a formatted and "READABLE" fashion

/*
collect from a series of nested mix maps specific values and write them to a text file
*/

global indxmk = 1 --index counter for the 1st dimension of a 2d array used below = p

fn CollectMIXValues t =
	(
	if t != undefined do 
		(
		if (classof t == BitmapTexture) then 
				(
				-- set the bitmap file name here
				-- bitmap is not needed as that is set later with another function
				) else if (classof t == Mix) do 
					(
					-- make array (p) with values at each level
					p[indxmk]= #(t.color2 , t.mask.output.output_amount , t.mask.filename, t.name)
					indxmk += 1 --iterate
					setFile t.map1 -- recurse into the mix map by parseing the current map, submap 1 of it
					)
		)
	)

CollectMIXValues (meditmaterials[11])
print p

I discovered, to my horror, that file reading and writing isn't quite as simple as I thought it was going to be.
And as for endless loops - there's always the power button and the door to the outside world...it exists! apparently.
Raj