Another snippet, just translated into a maxcript-friendly format.
If you need to get the file icon that is associated with a particular type, you can’t get this ordinarily from within a managed environment. There are some great examples on how to use the windows API so these can be added into maxscript by converting them into [...]
Another snippet!
For Rig Studio, I was faced with the problem of providing a method to not only render the view to the design surface, but capture it also. I felt that sometimes a full render wouldn’t be neccesary and users would want the option of performing a viewport capture for the UI background. If [...]
Normally, colourful language should be left in the snooker hall, but when it comes to max, there’s nothing more potty-mouth inducing when a custom UI doesn’t sit with the rest of the application. In my previous post about Rig Studio (my IDE for generating selection dialogs) I talked about using the maxtoolbar renderer to [...]
If you’ve got lots of different layers in the layer manager, its fine when you are in the actual file, but when you start having sets, characters and props in the same scene, it is sometimes difficult to navigate the interface. This is another snippet with a macro for adding a prefix to selected layers [...]
A while back there was a competition on the wonderful tech site http://tech-artists.org. Rob Galankis, Webmaster of the geek portal wanted a few designs to be made into t-shirts to give out at GDC. To cut a long story short, such is the 3D community’s affection for the humble teapot, that Piers Morgan could stick [...]
Just a snippet posting this time, sharing a small file callback to lock and unlock a camera’s position. If you need to make sure that a camera in a file doesn’t get moved when it is handled by a different artist, this could be useful. Locking a camera is simple, all you need to do [...]
One of the most time consuming things always seems to be building UI’s in Maxscript. I recently developed a system that uses a basic IDE and DotNet Serialization to store the entire UI to XML. This is a small tutorial with code snippets on how I approached the task.
It’s not often that you get an email from a maxscript legend like Jeff Hanna so I did have to do a double take at my inbox when it arrived. But as it transpired, Jeff had been looking to update one of the pipeline tools at games company Volition Inc.
I’d like to introduce the latest LoneRobot build – and it’s the one that I am most proud of.
If you just just stopped taking away my dialogs, you wouldn’t have forced me to build this monstrosity.
If you are developing dotnet tools for use in 3ds studio max, you will be used to a painfully slow method of evaluating your assemblies in max, unless you do something clever with dynamic compiling. Since the assembly cannot be unloaded after loading it you are forced to exit max, copy the assembly to the [...]
Time is commonly understood as something rather more than a linear pattern of execution. Many theoretical physicists believe in Einstein’s relativity theory which states that we are all experiencing a personal time relative to our current position in space. This intrapersonal time structure can curve and run parallel to others in space-time, potentially creating an [...]
Occasionally, you end up with a load of layers in your scene that are no use to anybody, serve no function to society, and end up taking valuable space like an unwanted uncle at a wedding.
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.