Quick parenting like in Maya

[andres.hernandezB63FL]

It would be nice to have a short way of parenting like in Maya. With the way it is done in Max the problem is that is not always practical to do the click and drag to find the parent object specially if you have several objects overlapping it, while if you just select both objects in an order and use that hot key you don't have to deal with all of the other objects, the view position in the viewport or your accuracy with the mouse 🙂

[ACCCC]

You can actually parent via drag and drop by using the scene explorer's hierarchy display mode

[andres.hernandezB63FL]

I know, that's something you can do even in Maya and Blender, but if you don't want to do a drag is still much faster to just hit a key, that's why I'm asking for it

[lupu_mihail]

Bind this macro to a hotkey. If you want to be exactly like in Maya, bind "P" key.

macroScript Parent category:"CustomScripts" toolTip:"last node from selection will become parent" 
(
local sel = ( for o = 1 to ((selection as array).count - 1) collect selection[o] )
for o in sel do o.parent = selection[selection.count]
)

[andres.hernandezB63FL]

Thank you Mihail, I really appreciate that, actually I'm using my own macro, however it would be nice for them to have this kind of features out of the box because one the main issues with Max is that you depend so much on plugins, scripts and everything and every time you need to setup a new machine you need to spend a lot of time setting all of those add-ons. Also, I have faced the problem that when you upgrade your Max version a lot of those add-ons get broken.