Wow, that's lot of commands/data there, thanks :).

BTW how does somene who is not a coder findout those codes/scripts for all tools inside MOI ? I'm shortcut guy so id' like to add shortcuts for all the tools like Fillet, chamfer, move, rotate, scale...... anythign what speeds up workflow.
Is there "easy" visual way of doing it like in other programs where you pick tool/from list and hit key and that's it, or we need to write commands/code for each one ?

Thanks

I'm currently using Max's Custom UI for major scripts, and using shortcut keys for the smaller inline scripts.
It is a work in progress for the past few years :-)

- Brian

Hi Lewis,

> BTW how does somene who is not a coder findout those codes/scripts for all tools inside
> MOI ? I'm shortcut guy so id' like to add shortcuts for all the tools like Fillet, chamfer,
> move, rotate, scale...... anythign what speeds up workflow.
> Is there "easy" visual way of doing it like in other programs where you pick tool/from list
> and hit key and that's it, or we need to write commands/code for each one ?

In the future I want to make an easier way to do it by picking things off some kind of list, but currently you have to just type in the command name or script code that you want to run. Pasting text should work in there though, what operating system are you using?

There is a list of all command names in the help topic for shortcut keys here:
http://moi3d.com/3.0/docs/moi_command_reference11.htm#shortcutkeys

Some of the most commonly used scripts are listed there too, like the "reset all views" that you had asked about previously. Also there are more scripts collected here:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/

The shortcut key setup is definitely a fairly primitive area of MoI that needs some attention, but it's been difficult to prioritize spending much time on it so far though since it's an area that most people only go into very rarely to set up the keys. It's not something that is usually used on a daily basis, so it's been a little neglected compared to things that might actually be used frequently.

- Michael

Hi Chipp, do Max's scripts above do what you're looking for? It looks like they should.

- Michael

Thanks for links Michael and sorry for so many questions. I'm MOI newbie which finally found some time to start usign the MOI (i bought it few months ago just for converison jobs) in modeling workflows also.

So far i collected some MAX and Chipp addons, GUI changers and it's helping me very much to adopt it's workflow to my needs so right now i need to add my shortcuts for faster work and i could se emyself modeling some stuff in NURBs instead polys only as for last 20 years ;).

thanks

No problem Lewis, I'm glad that you are going to be getting some modeling use out of MoI - that's actually more the main thing that it's designed to do! :)

For the right project, especially mechanical stuff you can gain a tremendous amount of speed from using MoI instead of polygon modeling. But for other projects like things that are organic characters those are better off done with polygons.

The main workflow for NURBS modeling is very different from polygon modeling (but that's why it's a useful companion because it has different strengths and weaknesses), you want to use 2D curves to define things with some curves building base parts and other curves being used as cutting objects in boolean operations. Booleans are the primary way of modeling things in NURBS, that's the biggest difference from polygon modeling. Anything that has a structure like machine cut stuff is a great fit for boolean NURBS modeling.

One of the things that can tend to be hardest for a poly modeler to get used to is the idea of building extended pieces and then using cutting operations to form the final edges, a lot of times polygon modelers have a strong tendency to want to draw in all the final edges and then try to build patches between them to fill them in - but usually that's not the best strategy - instead you want to build simple stock pieces which may be extended and then cut them with a boolean if needed.

There is some previous discussion here on some examples of this and tips for poly modelers, you may want to read these:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4865.2

- Michael

Thanks Max for the great script!

I have mapped the Zoom Out script to the comma key ("<"):

var z=1.2, vp=['3D','Left','Right','Top','Bottom','Front','Back']; for (var n in vp) moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.getViewport(vp[n]).zoom(z);

and then I mapped a Zoom In script to the period key (">"):

var z=.8, vp=['3D','Left','Right','Top','Bottom','Front','Back']; for (var n in vp) moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.getViewport(vp[n]).zoom(z);

Works PERFECT!!! Wish I had done this sooner :-)

Excellent!