Jorge Rodrigues wrote these wonderful words, and I completely agree with him. Thank you Jorge.
“What does a real artist do hyperrealism using watercolors or abstract painting using a pencil?
Different tools and techniques can be used for different needs, yet all of them can be the perfect solution for the purpose they were used.
The tool don’t make the artist.”
Thats why I decided to start this topic. I invite everyone that has experince working with any of these tools to describe when is better to use what?
I can start with the first question. Where is better to make a the UI, lets say a fast image gallery like in this example:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/32059/WPF-Filename-To-Icon-Converter
In:
maxscript + dot net
maxscript + wpf
C++ qt graphics
any other?
Also, Is it possible to create an exe application apart from 3dsmax, and link somehow its interface to the interface of 3ds max?
I ask this question because I saw many image galleries that are heavy in 3dsmax, especially when they open big images, while the exe from the link I gave, for example works smooth and fast.
- depends what your used to
- yes but it’s not for the faint hearted
and btw I hate this new forum interface it’s shit… I led with a quote so it decided the message was too short and deleted everything I typed so you’ve now got the short answers as I can’t be bothered to type it all out again.
Waw, so sad!
now Im left without a good answer that is very important for me. Anyway, I appreciate very much your efforts ))
I ask this question because I saw many image galleries that are heavy in 3dsmax, especially when they open big images, while the exe from the
link I gave, for example works smooth and fast.
there’s no reason why the “max” implemented code shouldn’t be as quick as the stand alone code… it’s probably more down to the quality of the code in the standalone exe
If we talk about UI in Max, doesnt it depend usually on the main thread only? Is it possible to use multi threading for such image galleries? If yes, then – in SDK, maxscript or in any of them?
yes when you by “ui” you want it to work in the command panel but in it’s own window it’s just another windows “window”
In fact, I tried to create a similar image viewer, and I could create it using wpf with maxscript, but I dont know how to use “binding” to update the items. I have to delete all items and just add every time nodes, but this approach is very slow. I dont know what to do now, and how to make it in a correct way, so that when brows9ng to a new folder, or filtering by name, I could have a fast update of the table. I really need help here, and I cant go on.