MeshMan

• General Usage
• Options
• Known Bugs/Limitations
• History

General Usage:

1. Objects that you want to edit with this script MUST be collapsed to editable meshes and have NO modifiers applied.
2. Select some objects, and press "Refresh". This will update the channel buttons to show which channels are used by the objects.
   (Reference the Legend to see what the different button colors mean.)
3. Following this, you can apply operations to any channels that you select in the channel list (just click on the channel buttons, or use the "All", "None", and "Invert" buttons).

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Options:

• Main Rollout:
• Property to Edit:
  Select the property of the mesh that you want to edit here. Currently only lists "UV Channels".
• Print Output To:
  This sets whether to print messages from the "Print Stats" command to a new editor window, or to the MaxScript Listener.
• Clipboard Group:
  This group of controls lets you cut and paste mesh properties (like UV coordinates) from one mesh to another at the face level. This also allows you to copy UV coordinates from one channel to another one the same object.
  • Copy:
    This will copy the selected property (ie. UV Coordinates) from the selected mesh into a clipboard for later pasting.
  • Use Selection:
    If this is on, only the properties of selected faces will by copied. If no faces are selected, then nothing will be copied.
    If this is off, then the properties of the entire mesh will be copied into the clipboard.
  • Paste:
    This will paste what is in the clipboard onto the currently selected object.
  • Use Selection:
    "Use Selection" for Pasting is not currently supported.
• Util Group:
  
  • Clean Mesh:
    This will fully re-build the selected mesh, making sure there are no errors in it (like corrupt UV channels). This is a good command to apply to a mesh as a final step after all modelling is done.
  • Print Stats:
    Prints out the following statistics for the selected meshes:
    • Vertex Count
    • Face Count
    • Which material ID's are used
    • Which map channels are used
• Edit UV Channels Rollout:
• Legend:
  Shows what the various colors of the channel buttons mean.
• Channel Buttons:
  100 buttons corresponding to the 100 available UV channels. Turning one of these on will cause the operations below to be performed on that channel.
  Note #1: The first button represents the vertex colors of an object, and the remainder of the buttons represent UV channels 1 - 99.
  Note #2: Hovering the mouse cursor over a button will pop up a label showing what channel that button represents.
• All/None/Invert:
  Hitting one of these will let you quickly select the UV channel buttons.
• Refresh:
  This will cause the buttons to be refreshed according to your current selection. This step can take a while if you have a lot of objects selected, or if the objects have many faces.
• Remove Isolated Map Verts:
  This will remove any extra texture verticies from the selected channels (of which there can be MANY, causing serious file bloat).
• Delete Channels:
  This will simply delete the UV coordinates from the selected channels (again, over-use of the UV channels can be a bit of a memory pig).

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Known Bugs/Limitations:

• None.

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History:

2000.02.17 - Created UVman
2000.03.08 - Folded old 2.5 FacePropMan into script, made more flexible
2000.03.10 - Added "Clean Mesh" (crash prone) and "Print Stats"
2000.03.21 - Started cut'n'paste, fixed "Clean" to support selections
2000.04.16 - Got to finishing up cut/paste for UV faces
2000.09.30 - Bug fix pasting map channels (offset into clip[TVERTS] array was wrong)

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