Open the .vcproj created by the wizard and edit the path within to match wherever that file is installed on your machine. A vcproj file is just an XML…

Fair enough. Regarding your second question there, in case you weren’t aware, there is a pretty complete SDK documentation online provided by Autodesk…

Creating all those files and setups from scratch is not necessary. Just install and run the plugin wizard, as explained in the SDK docs, and go from …

Looking at the source code for the point helper object, I can see the ADesk developer who wrote it did not add the P_RESET_DEFAULT flag to its paramet…

Nope, maxscript arrays must start at 1, and c++ arrays must start at 0. If you need a negative index to reference an array value, just transform the …

I don’t really understand the question…a mesh’s vertex normal array corresponds 1:1 to the vertex array itself. Ie, ‘getNormal mesh i’ gets the i’th v…

Hmm, that’s an odd thing for them to say…maybe you misunderstood what they meant? There are tons of 3rd party plugins that are multithreaded. VRay, T…

Multi-threading in an SDK plugin is pretty easy to do. You can use STL threads, OpenMP, TBB, or whatever MT library you prefer. Many CORE functions ca…

You’re calling “ClickConvert” after the Vray dialog pops up, so the dialog monitor is not catching the new window event. Always disable the dialogm…

Only one plugin is mine. My plugin generates geometry that I’m using to scatter particles over with particle flow. If I made both plugins I could prob…

Meshes in 3dsmax store materialIDs as unsigned short values, which means the most number of theoretical materials applied to a mesh is 65536. What fi…

Could be caused by a variety of factors, most likely related to your modifier’s validity interval. Are you setting that properly and returning it in y…

It’s the same for both meshes and mnmeshes: mesh.SupportVSelectionWeights(); float *vWeights = mesh.getVSelectionWeights(); for (int i = 0; i <…