Ceiling Grid

[MoonDoggie]

Just looked into it Bobby. The Maxscript is encrypted. Nothing I can do on that front. Sorry

[glorybound]

Not a problem. I appreciate your willingness to help.

[MoonDoggie]

No problem, always glad to help.

[snivlem]

I know in Maya it would be

1) create a closed curve loop, turn it into a surface (with quads and count selected) use the count number to control the amount of grids.
2) then adding add subdivisions until the "grid" was the correct size.
3) selecting all faces and applying an offset then selecting the faces and deleting
4) select the remainder of the mesh and extrude upwards.



It seems the same thing could be applied to Max, no?

If you want the custom rotation, just draw a giant grid rotate it, then use booleans to get the custom overall shape.

[jpmartin]

Maybe give Railclone a look. They have a free version. I have a custom preset that I use that works pretty well for me. Just create the spline, create a railclone instance, load the preset and pick the spline. Quick and easy.....

[glorybound]

I didn't see a preset for ceilings. I am working on another of that needs a dropped ceiling.

Maybe give Railclone a look. They have a free version. I have a custom preset that I use that works pretty well for me. Just create the spline, create a railclone instance, load the preset and pick the spline. Quick and easy.....

[jpmartin]

Check the rail clone pro forums. I have a post I started there where Paul Roberts updated my preset to work a little better and posted it there.

If the link below doesn't work, just search for ceiling tile.

http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?...sg7192#msg7192

[AndresAhumada]

If you have license railCLone you could do. There is a tutorial that even adds the lighting and various modules for the panels.
In fact, you can download already configured.

[flino2004]

I don't model stuffs in max but with array, solids and boolean operations would be very straight forward.

[Macker]

Did you try Populate Terrain? I used it about a dozen times yesterday for ceiling tiles/grids. Worked perfectly every time.

[GLASS-CANVAS]

+1 for Populate Terrain, it's excellent.

[dejan]

I'm really not seeing a problem here, unless it's a huge mesh which could cause crashing.
Other than doing it with a plane, you could create the grid with splines and use the sweep modifier (or even just make them renderable splines).

[thablanch]

Simple lines array, and sweep modifier.. (preset box and ajust)
really simple, versatile and editable