LoneRobot.net

HitchHiker is a VB DotNet/ 3dsMax User Control and is designed to provide automatic thumbnailing of directories containing a variety of media types.

LoneRobot control info featured on The Area

Using a DotNet textbox in 3dsMax isn’t a problem, you can disable hotkeys via maxscript, but how do you do it if the textbox is part of a composite control assembly?

Max natively casts a dotnet decimal into an integer. This could present a problem if you are using a numericupdown control with smaller increments. Here’s a way to get around it!

Dotnet Improvements in 3dsMax 2010

Control photoshop in any way you like using a custom COM wrapper from 3DSMax

Using an open source dotnet assembly.

Using a custom event class to do thy bidding

Using the ColorMatrix class to perform basic image manipulation

An alternative way of combining the occlusion pass into a single render

Weak References are great for character animators because you can store a load of information about objects in a rig without having the issue of referring to it explicitly by name.

Here’s how you do it.

Some methods are useful and can get overlooked when perusing the MXS help. One of them is the use of mapped functions in maxscript.

If you have ever received an email and instead of your normal information for pharmaceutical-related special offers and personal member enhancement, you get a jumble of nonsense, you’re probably already aware of what a Base64 encoded string looks like.

Extending the ColorChart into a UserControl so that colors can be arranged by hue rather than name.

Building a DotNet Color Chart to link the known color names to their hue.

Extend the functionality of existing controls using inheritance to enhance their 3dsMax UI integration.

A simple system to adapt the stock biped rig into something useable

Using GDI+ methods in 3dsMax via the paint event

Delving into the DotNet SDK – A timechange callback via Dotnet

A DotNet User control to be used in 3dsMax with build-in properties and methods for the character animator.