Im proud to announce the release of a new DotNet control for 3dsMax called HitchHiker. If anyone has read the related earlier post herethey will know a little bit about the background of the control. This release has some significant improvements in terms of the simplicity of integration.
HitchHiker is a dynamic auto-thumbnailing control, which has the ability to open Non-Dotnet image types like Targa and RPF.
Whats more, its credit crunch busting, global downturn reducingly FREE!
You can get it at lonerobot.net
Awesome job Pete. Kudos!
Wow… Just reviewed this control… Amazing…
Can’t wait to be on 2010… maybe in 2012…
Nice work, no use for it at the moment but I’m sure that I will find something.
Hi Marco, Keith, and Paul
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it.
I’ll be looking at it soon too, as we are working out a modellib/pipeline in the coming time. This looks great for merging models in a scene.
Thanks!
-Johan
Hi Johan,
a max file search option could certainly be added if you needed it. I had that facility in the first version of this control. I abandoned it due to the COM interop assembly i had to use to return the max thumbnail. I would think it would be easy to adjust to incorporate a maxfile drag and drop from the control. One thing i need to update in the help file is that it you can shift drag/drop the texture from the control into max. It should be easy to change the drag drop method into a maxfile also.
I will also add some other image type options like GIF and HDR shortly.
Or better yet, have an image that you can associate with a max, or any other file, and drag and drop the image but have the associated file passed as the drag item… I’ve done that with a html control on our asset manager, but it’d be super cool if your control took care of this… ( read: you do my job for free. )
Hey Keith,
Yes, that makes sense – I do the same thing on my XMLlayoutpanel control – it looks for a .png image with the same name as the XML preset and displays that on the button. Adding this functionality is a great idea. I’ll be sure to add this for the next update. Thanks for the idea! (and Johan too!)
Jeff Hanna found a bug in the control that has now been rectified. The download has been updated for anyone who has previously downloaded.