I’d like to do some heavy duty graphics programming ideas within 3ds Max and have plenty of expereince with Maxscript but am not very practiced with c++. Have read that you can imbed activex within maxscript and read/send parameters between them. Can the same be done with java applets, shockwave or flash files? Are there any examples of these if this has been done?
Have a search on scriptspot for some Flash wads Swami put together. they contain about 3 example files I wrote about 2-3 years ago which have some Flash / ax / MXS communication.
There’s a character select demo and an animation demo. Also attached is a graphing example.
Have fun!
Dave
Hey Dave!
Good to see you here, nice example by the way. I was also thinking about improving my Maxscript ui with some flash. Can you recomend any good resources on flash/action script side of things.
Cheers
Dan
Hey Dan!
Yeah… I guess I’m new around here, heh heh
Flash is getting so advanced now, it can be difficult to know where to start. You could try http://www.kirupa.com/ – there’s a while load of very well writen tutorials on there.
Apart from that, just copy what I’ve done in the example file.
If the strict AS2 stuff scares you, just stick to writing AS1. It does the same thing.
How are you anyway?
I`m doing good, I recently became a Dad!
Dan
Would it be beyond the capabilities of flash to create a ui that looked and worked similar to a simplified version of the animation mixer. for example maybe a timeline type track that I could drag blocks/clips onto with the capability to resize the clips and stuff. How far could I push it?
Cheers
Dan
I think it was the same Dave Stewart on the discreet forum who pointed me towards an app called activeXXX hardcore info which shows you the properties, events and methods on the active x installed on your computer. That means micrsoft ones and third party like flash. The class id is listed also. Helped me out no end but i suspect you want to do something a step up from the things that i ended up doing.
So welcome Dave, if it is the same one! and if not, welcome anyway!