SDK Video Tutorials (for Max.NET)

[shalabology]

i am in wonder how didnt u get many feeed backs for such great subject!thank u very much waiting more , impatiently.

[dgsantana]

Thank you for this great plugin and tutorial.

Best regards,
Daniel

[maxplugins]

I agree with Daniel, this is a great thing you've set up here, Marsel. I'm playing around with it at the moment...

@Daniel: any chance of doing your AdvancedNoise plugin for 2010?

Dave

[maxplugins]

Hi Marsel,

this is a great tutorial to get started.

Is it possible to hook plugins up to the Max UI? Like the next logical step to the Plane object would be using the UI to change Width / Length in the command panel...

I took a look at the UVChanger example, but that is a floating UI.

Cheers,

Dave

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Thanks for the replies guys!

Dave: Currently I have only been doing floating UI's because Max uses unmanaged resources to store its dialog/UI data which it then loads into panels. It is possible to make Max dock the (currently) floating managed forms into its panels (for example the modify panel) but all of the controls inside it would still have to be wired manually.

I have been playing around with an idea of auto-generating unmanaged dialogs based on managed forms so that Max would auto-wire them to param blocks and handle the UI, but that seems like a too complex of a solution for now.

On top of that there's also issue with creating paramblocks dynamically (in unmanaged plugins they're always defined statically), but I am hoping to address that in one of the next builds. I'll make a tutorial for that once its possible.

[maxplugins]

Thanks Marsel, I'm looking forward to the next tutorials :o)

Dave

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Speaking of which, here's another one:

Creating a 'spline-align' tool.

http://www.ephere.com/projects/MaxDotNet/content/spline_align_tutorial.jpg
http://www.ephere.com/projects/MaxDotNet/content/spline_align_tutorial.html

Comments etc. always welcome.

[Zbuffer]

Thanks very much for these tutorials Marsel,
Most instructive !
MaxDotNet is extremely powerfull !
I hope you can fix the assertion when updating plugins.
Testing code without restarting Max is such a wonderfull feature !
Once again,
Great stuff and huge thanks ;)

[PEN]

Marsel, as always, great work. I will have to start having a good poke at this soon to see what I can get working.

Is it possible to write modifiers?

[erilaz]

Great stuff Marsel! This helps clear up a lot of questions. :)

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Thanks guys!

Paul: Yes it should be entirely possible though I haven't done it myself yet. I will make a tutorial about modifiers soo I hope.

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Hi guys,

Another new tutorial is now up. This one covers creation of executable files that can control 3dsmax locally or remotely (through a network or internet) with full functionality, just like a plugin. That is made possible through .NET remoting and is an important part of unit testing, which I'll cover in a future tutorial.

http://ephere.com/projects/MaxDotNet/content/external_script_tutorial.jpg (http://ephere.com/projects/MaxDotNet/content/external_script_tutorial.html)

http://ephere.com/projects/MaxDotNet/content/external_script_tutorial.html

Let me know what you think.

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Just finished another tutorial. This time demonstrating unit testing using built-in Visual Studio tools for plugins and other tools inside 3d Studio Max.

http://ephere.com/autodesk/max/unit_testing_tutorial.jpg (http://ephere.com/autodesk/max/unit_testing_tutorial.html)

If you have any questions or remarks, please post them here or on the project website.

- Marsel

[Light]

Hey Marsel,

Very cool stuff. I submitted the videos to the people already interested here. This deserves top recognition (:




Cheers,
Light

[Marsel Khadiyev]

Thanks Light. As long as I got your attention its already good :) Are you still working on Orionflame?

[Light]

Cheers man. Not actively. I have bigger fish to fry now (:




Light

[Jsnyder]

Hey Marsel

I'd love to see these, based on what everyone here is saying, but none of the sites are working for me!
Have they moved or just some server problems?

Thanks

[Light]

Try this one (http://ephere.com/autodesk/max/), and scroll down for the tutorials.




Light

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