I've written this tool mainly because I find the existing selection
tools in 3dsmax very poor and rather unpractical. The main goal was to
create a tool which gives you a good hierarchic overview of the objects
in your scene, and enables you to quickly select objects (with a single
click!). Next to that, I wanted to make object parenting/linking more
intuitive and easy.
Tree view display of scene and hierarchy.
Single click object selection.
Drag & Drop object linking and grouping.
Simple object selection within groups.
Object renaming.
Filter by object type.
Select objects by name.
Visual representation of object type (icons).
Parent highlighting (green).
Hidden objects are still shown, in grey text.
Window can be kept open all the time.
Installation:
Close 3dsmax.
Remove any old version.
Start 3dsmax.
Drag & Drop the .mzp file into max to install.
In the customize user interface dialog, you'll find a Outliner window toggle' command, under the catagory 'Outliner'.
Assign
it to a hotkey, quad menu, toolbar or whatever you prefer. I personally
have it set under the h key, to replace the standard selection dialog.
Optionally assign the additional macroscripts to keys, for example the hide or freeze toggles.
Known issues:
The script can not be used in 3dsmax versions lower than 9, because it uses a dotNet treeview object.
Merging objects that replace existing objects can cause problems.
Undo-ing a group action leaves the (deleted) group node in the treeview.
The scrollwheel doesn't work anymore due to the hotkey focus change.
There
are no callbacks for object colour changes, layer name changes and type
changes. Changing these will have no effect on the outliner sorting
until it is refreshed completely.
If you happen to run into any bugs, be sure to let me know and I'll do my best to fix it.
