Pick list for VrayToon

[tricky]

I am setting up quite a complex render using various VrayToon effects on selected geometry: some lines will be thicker than others, some will be differently coloured etc. I have created some selection sets to help organise which toon effect I want applied to what pieces of geometry.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a quick way to remove a whole load of objects from the include/exclude list. This is making my life massively tedious at the moment. It does seem that you can click a number of items at once, but when you then click 'remove' it only removes the most recent selection, not the whole lot that is selected. You also cannot click one item in the list, scroll down and then shift + click to select a whole range.

Even a 'clear list' button would be very useful!

[svetlozar.draganov]

Unfortunately it is not possible to remove multiple items so far.
It would be easier to remove VrayToon itself, add it again and then add the objects you would like in the list.
We'll make a feature request about removing multiple objects as well as clear list option.

[tricky]

OK thanks. hopefully this is quite a simple thing to implement (its really just the same sort of picking/selecting options that appear elsewhere in the 3dsmax interface)

[svetlozar.draganov]

There is a bug with VrayToon which might be a temporary solution.

The bug is that if you hide any objects which are already in vray-toon-list and then add a new object, the hidden ones will be automatically removed.
So you can select and hide objects you would like to remove from vray-toon, then add a new object into the list, the hidden objects will be removed from the list and what's left is to remove the previously added object.

It is not perfect solution but it will definitely save up some time and efforts.

The bug was originally reported for version 3.x, not sure if it persists in version 2.x as well.

[Margarita.Stoeva]

Another helpful tip, you can use maxscript to clear all objects from Toon list:

Toon1=getAtmospheric(1) //the number in the brackets corresponds to the position of the atmospheric effect in the atmosphere effects list
Toon1.excludeList=#()

Then you can add multiple objects with the Add button and Select By Name ( H ) list.

[SnipeyX]

Bumping this to check in on the fix for bug & picking. Ran into the bug accidentally as i was dealing with the picking limitation (I had picked a bunch of objects, then later isolated my view and added another, doh! lost all the previous picks). Nice to see the maxScript, though when I tried adding my selection manually (instead of via the Select By Name dialog) I could only get a dependency loop error, not sure why. But at least the select by name method got everything I needed back real quick.

a = selection as array
theToon = getAtmospheric(1)
theToon.excludeList = a

[svetlozar.draganov]

We are sorry to inform you but this bug is not fixed yet.

[svetlozar.draganov]

This issue has been fixed in the latest official version.