Hi Frederick.

Is it a plugin? I have nothing like in my version of MoI.

Martin.

Hi Martin,

It may well be.

I don't remember installing it.

Let me do a bit of research...

OK I got it from here:

https://moi3d.com/wiki/MaxScriptArchive

It's the item at the type: Custom UI

As you can see Max S has been a source of many good things.

The Object Library that is part of it came with a few demo items but you can add your own - it's quite simple.

The great thing is when you pick a part to use, it appears ready to adjust it's orientation to whatever surface you need, at whatever point you need it.

Frederick

Hey Frederick,
Amateur answer for you here....

The "size" of your object seems to matter with how Max coded the image generation. So if a single object, small enough is the target, then you get a great image.

If its "larger"-"Offset"-"Multiple objects" in viewport, then it gets truncated like you show...

This part of the configuration code seems to control a "Zoom Factor" which controls how much can fit in a "centered view"

........
vp.zoom(1.2);
...........

Look in the ObjLibrary.menu.htm file

So my amateur answer is you can set a larger value to "zoom out" and have it fit your larger object or scene

An "expert answer" could take a better look at the code and see if it could be a more "dynamic size" for all related scenarios...

Anyway.... Thats all i got.

Maybe someone else will jump on it....

If you are a "code reader" and want to experiment with results, I would look at this line:

..................
moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.getViewport('3D').render(400, 320).save(savepath+fileName+".png");
..................

And fool around with the render size of the screengrab in relation to the zoom value to get better results for the type of objects you use

Hi BurrMan,

Thanks for the reply.

I wonder if the (400, 320) is the ideal size for the image I am supposed to create.

Maybe it's the proportions that are important.

Time to experiment.

Frederick

I fooled around with it a bit....

Changing the resolution of the created png file didnt change the behavior you are after

Changing the zoom factor seems to control it better

I found a setting of "2.0" to work as you asked

The line:

...........
vp.zoom(2.0);
...............

With that said, I have no idea what that means

Hey BurrMan,

You provided the solution.

Making sure the image ratio is 5:4 (400 divided by 320) and the image comes out nicely centered.

And Windows (I think it is part of Windows) happens to have a tool which allows adjusting an image to exactly 5:4.

Thanks.

Frederick

Hi Frederick,

re:
> The great thing is when you pick a part to use, it appears ready to adjust it's orientation
> to whatever surface you need, at whatever point you need it.

That's using the ImportPart command, you can run it by right clicking on File > Import.

- Michael

Hi Michael.

Good to know.

Before encountering that feature in the Object Library, I was importing parts and messing around with aligning them using move/rotate which was tedious.

Frederick