There are two levels to this really – In a custom attribute or scripted plugin (they are the same pretty much in terms of their setup), you have the a…

Hi Stephan, If i’ve understood this correctly, you are wanting to replace the faces of some proxy geometry with blocks representing objects with more…

i guess 2010 is out in the US and not in the uk? my sub center still lists 2009 as the only available. [edit] ah, sorry, just checked the other forum…

JHN: Weak references are the way to go, and I use them all the time. -Johan I absolutely agree, this alone has made a huge amount of difference …

Not at all! nice solutions, people.

Hi Bobo, isn’t XML the same as a text file but with those funny little wiggly lines all over it? I take the point, but whether loading or saving th…

UI’s always take forever for this sort of thing. I am currently using XML to to store transforms and using this dynamic control to display the preset …

Hi Pat, im not 100% either to be fair, Maybe you could explain a little more as to why you are structuring it this way. (I guess you know you missed …

it’s similar deal when using a loop to delete objects!

hi luis, no problem, you probably know this but the way to tell when x64 is running 32bit mode is you get a *32 written after the process in task mana…

I guess it should work on any 32bit version on x64, I can run the same script (which has an old activex tabstrip) in my 32bit max 2009, I just mention…

Hi luis, if you are running a 32bit version of max, even on X64 you can use activex as it runs it in 32 bit mode. it’s just the 64bit version of max t…

Hi Guibou, You will need to store the variable in a parameter block. The good thing about this is you can create a link to the variable itself and th…

hi nicolas, if you are desperate to keep backward compatibility, here’s a hacky way of faking a tabstrip look. If you build a line of checkbuttons so…