VRayDistanceTex Objects - Remove multiple at once

[tooves]

Hiya Vlado and gang,

Sometimes I need to swap lots of geometry out of my scene due to updates/client feedback.

When using VRayDistanceTex map, this can leave me with hundreds of <deleted> items in my Objects list.
At the moment it seems I can only select individual objects in the list, which makes removing <deleted> items tedious.

Because of this limitation I usually just leave the <deleted> items in the list, but over the course of a long project the list can get hard to manage.

Is it possible to add the ability to "shift-select" multiple objects or "Remove all <deleted> objects" to the Objects list please?

Thanks!

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Thank you very much for your feedback.
I've already added this feature-request in our list.
I'll update this thread as soon as we have it done.

[joconnell]

This'll loop through any of the distance tex maps in your scenes and get rid of any <deleted> items that are in the lists - paste it into a maxscript > new script and then do file > evaluate

theArray = getclassinstances vrayDistanceTex

for i = 1 to theArray.count do
(
	theMap = theArray[i]
	for o = 1 to theMap.objects.count do
	(
		if theMap.objects[o] == undefined then
		(
			deleteitem theMap.objects o
		)
	)
)

[tooves]

Thanks Svetlozar.

Also thanks John. I really need to pull my finger out and get into maxscript at some point.

[Alex_M]

Joconnel, does this script work with Max 2016? I just happened to be in a need of quickly removing a bunch of deleted objects from VrayDistanceTex but evaluating the script doesn't seem to work. I get some errors:

[COLOR="#0000FF"]#(Map #2070297468:VRayDistanceTex)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]-- Error occurred in o loop; filename: ; position: 227; line: 10[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#0000FF"]--  Frame:
--   o: 15[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]--   called in i loop; filename: ; position: 236; line: 12[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#0000FF"]--  Frame:
--   i: 1
--   theMap: Map #2070297468:VRayDistanceTex[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]-- Runtime error: array index out of bounds: 15[/COLOR]

I wish we could have an option to quickly remove deleted objects from lists. Maybe in the next SP?

[joconnell]

what might be happening is as it's running the length of the list of objects is getting smaller but the code is using the original length of list and trying to access things that don't exist anymore. I'll recode.

[Dave_Wortley]

That's a lot of code John-boy.....

for o in getclassinstances VRayDistanceTex do o.objects = (for obj in o.objects where obj != undefined collect obj)

[Alex_M]

Brilliant! Thanks Dave, works like a charm.