question: how do i use pluggins

[mouj]

Howdy !

You need to edit the plugins.ini file, located in Max root directory, as you say. Plugins.ini will load both plugins and additional help files, and both can be located anywhere on your drive(s), you simply need to point them out in ini file.
Say you have a plugin located in x:\Max5\myplugin, then simply add it under the "[Directories]" line, give it a name and add the path to the directory containing the plugin(s) file(s) :

[Directories]
Myplugin=x:\Max5\myplugin

and that's it, save this and restart Max, should work as long as you keep the line in the ini file, and the plugin(s) in the pointed directory.
Same goes for help files, but you need to point at the .chm files directly, whereas plugins are loaded from within a directory, if more than one plugin is present in the targeted directory, Max will load them all.

note: there is a "Plugin Manager" app that lets you load Max by first choosing which plugins you want to start with, look up at scriptspot (http://www.scriptspot.com). Basically it's just a kind of an interface for the ini file.

mouj

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