Topics of interest to people customizing Autodesk M&E products using SDKs and scripting APIs by SDK Subject Matter Expert Christopher Diggins.
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Due to popular demand we have just published and released the 3ds Max SDK and MAXScript documentation in CHM format at http://www,autodesk.com/me-sdk-docs
On the 3ds Max YouTube learning channel is a two part MAXScript tutorial that demonstrates how to create a tree of objects procedurally.
Today I'm going to share a hidden gem in the 3ds Max learning channel for those of you completely new to MAXScript and programming.
A simple MAXScript tutorial in the form of a MAXScript program that procedurally creates a walking stick-figure and animates a camera associated with the viewport.
To help make vertex weighting easier during the skinning process, I collaborated with Amer Yassine from the 3ds Max YouTube learning channel to come up with a MAXScript mouse tool.
For uses of M&E products there will be a number of scripting and SDK classes at Autodesk University. AU is going to be held from November 27th to November 29th at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
In today’s blog post I’ll show how to embed a web server in 3ds Max using .NET that executes MAXScript commands sent over an HTTP connection. This is a surprisingly easy tecnique which could be used to remote control 3ds Max from a JavaScript embedded in a web-page or from a Python process running on the same machine or remotely.
Today I'm going to show a MAXScript solution for baking animation transforms to helper objects from bones.
Today I'm going to shine a light in some of the less well-known and poorly documented areas of the 3ds Max SDK to reveal a number of tools and tricks for making plug-in development easier.