Script to copy align rotate and replace 1 object to multiple others

Common Common :: Off-topic
1

Hi all

Max’s “replace” is very limited. I have couple of thousand instanced objects in my scene which I want to replace by a newer version. How do I go about doing that?

EDIT: Hmmm found objectReplacer in the Soulburn Script Pack - will give that a go and see.

2

if you replace thousand objects via maxscript it could thake some time cause
maxscript is not multithreading.
Here is a small script to replace objects:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

macroScript gantmxs_replace category:“gantmxs” buttontext:“Replace Selection…”
(
    on isEnabled return (selection.count != 0)
    on Execute do
    (
        sel_arr = (for s in selection where s.parent == undefined collect s)
        fn filter_geometry obj = obj.parent == undefined
        global replobj = pickobject count:1 filter:filter_geometry
        if replobj != undefined then
        (
            for i = 1 to sel_arr.count do
            (
                replobj.transform = sel_arr.transform
                maxops.clonenodes (getobjchildren replobj) newNodes:&item cloneType:instance
            )
            for i = 1 to sel_arr.count do
            (
                delete (getobjchildren sel_arr*)*
            )
        )
    )
)
if menuMan.registerMenuContext 0xf5e3905 then
(
(menuMan.findMenu “&Tools”).addItem (menuMan.createActionItem “gantmxs_replace” “gantmxs”) 19
    menuMan.updateMenuBar()
)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

much faster would it be to place Vrayproxys and only change the vrayproxy-meshfile.

3

soulburn object replacer work instantly for me. In my case I wanted to replace standard instanced meshes with a newer vrayproxie version