script to change output of Display Coordiantes

RadioRahim — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:14:42 GMT

Greetings, I'm wondering if there's a way I change the output values for coordinate display window at the bottom of the screen to be HEX?.

An example of a typical coordinate display is in float value like this:

X: 13.880514 Y: 0.0112 Z: -9795.024

I need to have the coordinate display window multiply these values by 1000 and then make a simple conversion. Example of conversion:

X = 13.880514 x 1000 = 13880.514

The value of 13880.514 converted to HEX is: 46 58 E2 0E, and is in Big Endian byte order, but I need it in little Endian like this 0E E2 58 46

Is there a script, pluggin, or method I could do to make this work?

Re: script to change output of Display Coordiantes

drew_avis — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:50:32 GMT

Hi there, so it looks like you're asking a couple of things:

- converting decimal numbers to hex

- setting the coordinates display in Max

I'll point you to some resources that might help get you going in MAXScript.

For converting decimals to hex, you can convert decimal integers to hex using bit.intAsHex. See this topic for more information: http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2018/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_B57EA575_DCDE_42F5_9D30_88E3EB41F350_htm

For setting the coordinates display, you can use setStatusXYZ() - see: http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2018/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_3EED3E7C_D7BB_4160_99BB_82B7872CA86D_htm

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you provide a custom format, and hex is not supported. A possible solution would be to creating your own rollup in the UI and display the required hex value there.

Hope that helps.

Drew

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