Hotkey for "Select Vray camera" possible?

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Hello,

I am desperately missing a hotkey to select the active vray camera.
Is that possible? Or maybe with a scripted?

Thanks

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Here you go.

You will notice i left you a second version of the macroscript commented out.
Copy the contents in another script, and run it, to have a second command available which will select the active camera regardless of its class.

EDIT: Latest version is v 0.02. It’s been strengthened for when the current viewport is not a camera one.
It will proceed looking for other views which are a camera, and select the first one it finds.
If it finds none, it will select the first camera it finds (i.e. it’s been created first. I think.) in the scene, even if they aren’t set to a viewport.
If it finds none, it will pop a message box, and warn the user.

Keep reporting issues, thanks!
selectActivePhyscam_002.zip (608 Bytes)

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many thanks! :slight_smile: I will check it out tomorrow

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Just to add to Lele comment , I suggest adding Try() Catch() to the script like this
try(select (getActiveCamera())) catch()
to avoid an error if you are currently not looking through a camera.

Personally, I use the following script all the time :
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc…-active-camera

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bah me. i thought it’d work with an undefined selection.
Let me fix this, and also try and figure out what happens with multiple cameras.

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Note you can also select the camera you are currently looking through from the dropdown menu in the view.

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Many thanks!
I just tested it now and it works great. Even with several cameras and with or without the additonal “catch”-line. (3dsMax2021)

I did not check out the script from scriptspot, but thanks also for that.

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V002 should work fine, yes, no need to edit it.