The windows server resource kit also got a ‘shortcut.exe’ to create shortcuts from the command line. If you have cygwin on your systems as shell repl…

matt, your sample looks well. I had the impression that vray ads RCx to its render string and it is hard to get it. Thats why I suggested the materia…

you can try()catch() if you can create a vray material. Or activate the renderer. I would try the material. Georg

erilaz: so go for it j-man! go! j-man go! [insert link to your favorite cheerleader image here] Georg

I’m having trouble now going into 3D representations Idea: After doing the replacement via recursive stringreplacement we could parse the string let…

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants can be downloaded here as PDF: I am sure you can find some code snippets in this great book. Georg

In addition and or duplication to what was said already: I use them in a fake object oriented way. I treat struct as objects that hold all necessary f…

ok – no excuse – I forgot the page about structs. Maybe the example eek posted above or the examplesf97ao posted some timeago can find their way into…

The maxscript docs are a goldmine of info on this sort of stuff. I must admit, that I haven’t read the docs from start to end, but never found a clu…

Shape Common Properties, Operators, and Methods This chapter in the maxhelp explains some methods and functions to interpolate on a spline like pathIn…

I guess the difference is: AVI is supported by windows by default in somhow a build-in feature into directx. Hence its ‘easy’ to support it via maxscr…

convert a imagesequence to quicktime movie: Georg

I think it would be fine to sort the array first. See also here: Sort the array using qsort() in stdlib.h>. Then go through the sorted array c…

cool tool. Georg