So I’ve done a ton of maxscripting plus a bit of python and c#.
Give that 3dsmax has no python shell or editor. What’s the simplest setup to write python gui’s for max ?
At the moment I was just looking at using sublime text plus the 3dsmax plugin here . I was going to write the GUI code by hand using pyside and qt.
Any other suggests for a 3dsMax/Python development environment.
I can’t believe I have to type python.execute “… the python file” any time I want to test something … way to go autodesk … (again … )
Here’s my write up of getting Sublime Text talking to 3dsMax
If I remember correctly, there’s a tool on scriptspot that allows a sublimetext user to ask 3dsmax to run a piece of mxs code (one necessary condition would be to have only one instance of max running).
This code would be your python.executeFile(foobar), and as a result, you’ll have the equivalent of the Alt-E shortcut in the mxs editor.
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/sublime3dsmax
Check this page, note that I never used it, I had an equivalent for my Vim/maxscript setup.
Indeed it does work. I using the same plugin.
Are you using Vim for python as well as maxscript ?
Using it for python yes, with some vim plugins : tagbar, ctags, mainly.
I remember trying to use it with maxscript for some days, but the mxs grammar file I found was not complete enough. I tried to update it progressively but this kind of stuff need time and I didn’t had enough time at the moment so I gave up.
Imho, the mxs grammar is pretty complex as its syntax is not very strict : function declarations that can have empty default values, presence of commas depending of the scope (inside a struct or not), function calls with or without parenthesis, etc. You end up with a grammar file difficult to write, it’s a good exercise
Well, without getting into this huge troll you threw, I think it’s a matter of environment, (different for everyone I guess) : for me it was more specifically about the established workflow and the available time I had.
I’ve been writing python projects for my shop’s pipeline for months now, I’m used to python standard-or-not libraries (os, glob, elementtree/xpath, yaml, imagemagick, wx, etc).
I had to write python tools for windows (e.g. scripting Thinkbox Deadline), others for Linux (e.g. asset library plugged into an apache server, video encoding server, etc) : our pipeline is using python, and it’s using it a lot. Not in a 3D part yet, but in all the remainder we do.
At work we just switched from max 2013 to max 2015 :
- It gives me access to PySide librairies (qt !)
- I only have 2 months to write a lot of projects before the vfx artists come back, and I’m way more comfortable on python than on C#/.NET (the only project I did was the helloworld, I don’t know the .NET API and the few lines I wrote some Windows.Forms stuff, I didn’t like it).
Given those reasons, it was the natural choice for me.
btw… why is python? why is it again?