Hey, I’m looking for people to help me test a new Maxscript tool for transferring keyboard shortcuts and Maxscript settings and files between different versions of 3ds Max.
I would normally post on the main Max forum for something like this, but because of the additional usefulness for Maxscript programmers (i.e. automatically dropping a script into the startup directories of multiple Max versions for testing purposes), I thought I would try here instead.
I have some ideas for more advanced features, but would first like to a) make sure everything works as it is supposed to, b) gauge interest in MaxVerSync, and c) see if anyone else has suggestions for improving it.
Anyone who is interested, please shoot me a message with the best way to contact you. I’ll edit this message when I have enough testers.
is there any problem to copy shortcuts (kbdx) files across versions?
This is just a faster way to do it. One click to copy across multiple versions.
EDIT:
For example, using the interface below clicking “copy shortcuts” will copy the keyboard shortcuts from Max 2012 64-bit to 2009 64-bit, 2013 64-bit, and 2014-2017. If you want to leave the files as-is for, say, 2016, you can just uncheck the arrow to the right.
Clicking “copy script” will copy the file “test.ms” from the scripts directory of Max 2012 64-bit to the scripts\startup folders of the specified versions of Max. Clicking “copy maxscript settings” will cause the maxscript properties and mxs editor properties to be copied from Max 2012 64-bit to all the specified versions.
I’ve started messing around with copying menus and quads, but because different Max versions have different features, it looks like it would require a more line-by-line approach to editing the files. I’m not going to pursue that any further unless it looks like there is sufficient interest.
(Also, transferring keyboard shortcuts across the 2012/2013 divide, i.e. .kbd vs .kbdx, requires more than just copying the files. I needed to write functions to convert between the formats.)