Color
bars have been added to provide
better document structure
and
help quickly spot examples and warnings:The following changes have been made to the MAXScript Online Reference:
Color
bars have been added to provide
better document structure
and
help quickly spot examples and warnings:
See Also topics will appear after an orange bar.
Class Description including Superclass and ClassID is now on blue background.
Important Notes and Warnings are on red background.
Groups of related methods or properties can be separated by a yellow bar.
Examples and Scripts are denoted by a green bar.
Syntax definitions are also on blue background for easier location
All
example scripts are now color-coded
for
better readability!
Reorganized the
Modifiers
list in the Contents tab into a
hierarchy for easier navigation.
Regrouped by function and
added group titles
to
the Editable_Poly
Properties and Interface:
EditablePoly topics for easier
navigation. The groups are also
accessible from the Content tab.
Added
a large number of screenshots illustrating the Editable Poly
and Editable
Mesh methods
examples.
Reorganized the
MAXScript
Extensions in character studio chapters and added topics
documenting additional classes.
Added
the following tutorial to the "How
To" chapter:
How To ... Develop a Vertex Renderer
Added
the following Particle
Flow tutorials to the
"How
To" chapter:
How To ... Transfer ParticleFlow Particle Motion To Scene Objects
How To ... Affect Particle Flow Particles by Mass
Added a new sub-chapter
"How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool
in Nine Easy Steps" to
the "How
To" tutorials
chapter:
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Basic Utility
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Strokes Support
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Brush Size and Color
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Airbrush and Shapes
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Smooth Brushes
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Load and Save
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Erase Changes
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - Unwrap UV Coordinates
How To ... Develop a Bitmap Painting Tool - 3D Painting
Added
a new sub-chapter "How To ... Develop a
Selected Objects Inspector using ListView ActiveX
Control" to the
"How
To" tutorials
chapter:
How To ... Develop a Selected Objects Inspector using ListView ActiveX Control - Part One
How To ... Develop a Selected Objects Inspector using ListView ActiveX Control - Part Two
Added
a new sub-chapter "How To ... Develop
a Scene Browser
using TreeView ActiveX
Control" to the
"How
To" tutorials
chapter:
How To ... Develop a Scene Browser using TreeView ActiveX Control - Part One
How To ... Develop a Scene Browser using TreeView ActiveX Control - Part Two
Replaced the example
snippets with full-blown working scripts that actually do something
in the following topics:
Edittext - BoxCreator - create boxes with user-defined names
Listbox - ObjectKiller - delete objects by double-clicking in a list
Implemented Skin Selection
tools for Grow, Shrink, Loop and Ring using the unsupported
SkinUtils methods:
Grow/Shrink/Loop/Ring Skin Selection
Reorganized the
ActiveX
Controls topics into various
sub-topics for easier
navigation, added new topics describing some typical control
types.
Windows Media Player ActiveX Control
Point2 Values as "Twips" in ActiveX Controls
Added
detailed documentation
of the ListView
ActiveX Control
properties, methods and
event handlers. See also the corresponding
tutorials
ListView ActiveX Controls
Tutorials mentioned
above.
Added
detailed documentation
of the TreeView ActiveX
Control properties, methods and
event handlers. See also the corresponding
tutorials
How
To ... Develop a Scene Browser using TreeView ActiveX Control -
Part One mentioned
above.
Reorganized the
MAXScript FAQ
into
various sub-chapters for easier navigation using the Content
tab.
Added
new topics to the
MAXScript FAQ
based
on user requests:
How do I get a Space Warp by Binding?
How do I delete randomly a specified percentage of geometry objects?
How do I access UI elements to change their properties?
How do I make a vector from a vertex position?
How do I find the angle between two vectors?
How do I find the angle between 3 vertices?
How do I rotate a vector around the Z axis?
How do I align the UVW_Modifier's Gizmo to a selected face?
How do I display a value in a Rollout?
How do I batch-process multiple .MAX files?
How Do I Select a Face of an Editable Mesh by its Index?
How Do I Get Faces With Normals Facing Away?
How do I check if a string contains only numbers?
How do I link the rotation of an object to the scene time?
How do I remove duplicate arrays from an array?
How do I build Unconnected Edges Selections from EPoly Edge Selection?
How do I remove mid-edge EPoly Vertices?
How do I Select Edges Between Materail IDs?
The Wonderful World of Classes and Class Instances
Added
previously undocumented system global variable
preferences.dontRepeatRefMsg
controlling the state of
the animation system optimization introduced in
3ds
Max 6.
Added
previously undocumented Scripted Plugin
Event Handler on
clone do...
Added
previously undocumented method setNumFaces
to Mesh Face
Methods topic.
Added
previously undocumented parameter progressbar
to
the render()
method.
Fixed
the description of the hasNoteTracks
method in the
NoteTrack Value
topic.
Fixed
link from Contents tab to ActiveX by-reference
arguments for methods and events which incorrectly pointed
at ActiveX Controls in
MAXScript Rollouts.
Added
an example of finding the
Angle between two Vectors to the
dot
product description in the
topic Point3
Values
Fixed
the description and added an example of coercing
Time Values to Numbers in the Time Values
topic.
Added
previously missing description of the setVertColor
method to the
Mesh Color-Per-Vertex
Methods topic.
Fixed
.scale
property description
of Wind :
SpacewarpObject object. Added note about
proper access of the object-level property which collides with the
node-level .scale property.
Added
missing
.mapCoords
and/or
.smooth
properties
documentation to
C_Ext :
GeometryClass , ChamferBox :
GeometryClass , Gengon :
GeometryClass , L_Ext :
GeometryClass , OilTank :
GeometryClass
Rewrote the
documentation and replaced/added
examples in the Selection
Filters and Display
Filters and Class
Id Filters
topics.
Fixed
the description of the .object
property of the
Pickbutton
UI
control. It was originally documented as read-only, but it can be
set.
Added
missing documentation for .fuse
and .selectByID
methods in the
splineOps
structure.
Added
a note to the Interface:
INodeGIProperties regarding Radiosity not
processing hidden objects even when not excluded from
GI.
Added
an example of the optional keyword filename
in Standard Open and Save
File Dialogs.
Fixed
wrong name of .character
property in
CharacterAssembly.
Fixed
a bug in the FAQ example How do I Sort a
MultiMaterial By Material ID?
Changed the reference to
the "Animate" button to "Auto Key" in the topic animate
and
added a historical note for new users to explain the reasons for
the current naming.
Added
a note to the topic ActiveX Controls in
MAXScript Rollouts about the changed behavior
of URLs in ActiveX controls introduced by Microsoft. All URLs
should start with "http://"
Added
a new topic Customizing MacroScript
Buttons describing the right-click
menu and options for editing MacroScript Buttons.
Fixed
broken example in CurveControl
topic
and enhanced the explanations of some Properties and
Methods.
Added
documentation of optional second argument of get and set handlers
of tab type parameters in scripted
plugins. Also fixed minor errors
in the documentation of types.
The
optional on
getDisplayMesh handler in scripted Camera
Plug-ins was available since
3ds
Max 5
but
was not documented. The same handler in scripted
helpers is new in
3ds
Max 7.
Removed obsolete Notes
describing missing MAXScript access from multiple classes where
these properties have been exposed in later 3ds
Max versions.
Removed orphaned
references to #draft
renderer which was retired in 3dsmax
6.
Removed the ConvertToPatch
topic which contained the same information as the Turn_To_Patch
topic (ConvertToPatch is an alias of Turn_To_Patch).
See also
What was New in MAXScript in 3ds Max 7
MAXScript Language Improvements in 3ds Max 7
Documentation Updates after the 3ds Max 7 Release