Here’s a little dump of things I’ve released to download or that I think could hopefully be useful to somebody!
Scripts
They are all under a category carloTools when you install them. Add them to your shelf as a button to use!
This script opens a floater with 3 variable settings (samples, spread and max distance) for a quick and dirty ambient occlusion pass. This doesn’t take into account direct light, it will hold and fetch your scene and it uses all your current render settings e.g. frame size, save file location, etc. It will change your renderer to mental ray and back after.
This will cycle through your scenes objects, look for anything that doesn’t have a UV map channel and add it to a selection. The final selection will be all the objects that don’t have a map channel. If the object is in a group it’ll select the group, you’ll have to open the group and re-run the script to search within it.
This will render your selection as a white mask over black, useful for quick Photoshop selections or if you need to render a quick mask for a sequence! To use just select some objects in your scene and press the button on the shelf. It’ll hold your scene before making changes and fetch when it’s done so nothing should be affected. Uses your current render settings for the mask too such as size, AA etc.
Quick and *dirty* script that pretty much selects a checker pattern on a plane. Stack must be collapsed to an Editable Poly. It will ONLY work with one of the grid sides having an odd number so if you need an even grid, add one row then just delete after. You can probably guess it just selects all the polygons with an odd face ID! There is pretty much no error checking either.