Feedback

Tell us what you think of the site.

Send Feedback

RSS Feeds

RSS feed subscriptions for all Blogs entries

Marc’s Blog 3D Roadie Mayalicious Maxed Out Taking it to the Max Duncan Corners Louis Marcoux Blog The MudRoom The 3ds Max SDK Blog My Oh Maya! Planet Softimage With Design in Mind The Smoke Learning Blog Flame Premium can do that Showcase this! Blend & Comp Games, Limb from Limb! The Suite Spot Into the pixels Max Station Amalgamation Suite-ish Maya in Motion You and M&E The Art of VFX The Desk 3ds Max & Moritz Roland's Maya Max Nation Stoned and Wired

Software Trials

Autodesk® 3ds Max®

Autodesk® Maya®

Autodesk® Softimage®

Autodesk® MotionBuilder®

Autodesk® Mudbox™

Autodesk® Sketchbook® Pro

Autodesk® Smoke on Mac®

Quick Links

Don't use the SDK when MAXScript will do.

A common mistake that I and others make is to use the SDK, when MAXScript can accomplish the desired task in a few lines.

Posted: Sep 15, 2009

Published by: Christopher Diggins

Users comments (5)

	Posted by Christopher Diggins on Apr 07, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Hello hedphelym, I replied to your post on the forum. We can continue the discussion there.

	Posted by stig atle on Apr 01, 2010 at 03:44 PM
I tried this function in my code, but keep getting errors when trying to run maxscript through sdk.. area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/sdk/get-environment-maptexture-name-and-calling-maxscript-functions-problem/

	Posted by Christopher Diggins on Oct 13, 2009 at 09:05 AM
These are excellent points. I am researching ways to simplify and explain function publishing so that it is easier to extend MAXScript with new functions and objects. Your suggestions help push this higher up on the priority list.

	Posted by Martin Breidt on Oct 12, 2009 at 05:50 AM
Good advise, but maybe there should be more documentation on how to interface between MAXScript and the SDK. Examples: How do I develop a new MXS function, using the SDK? How do I call MAXScript from C++/SDK? How do I pass variables between them? How do I expose my SDK functions to MXS? Documentation and a set of examples (from simple to complicated) would be nice.

	Posted by olaffinkbeiner on Sep 16, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Hi Christopher, this is a very good advice. Maxscript is very powerfull in many situations. Have you documented how to extend maxscript in the SDK Documentation? It seems very complicated as quite a lot of stuff is missing in Maxscript and some 3rd party plugins cant be controlled properly via Maxscript... kind regards Olaf