I can add two ore more things to what Shane said. You can also use the “System.Drawing.Bitmap” class to manipulate images. This class is very powerfu…

Thanks a lot Jon! If one day I need to use a .NET ListView and its advanced features it will be easier and faster to develop the script.

Yes, lamrug is useful too. There’s also the forum at .

Hi, I think you can contact David Lanier (he knows 3ds Max and mental ray development very well) on his forum: Regards,

As Shane said, you have to create a System.String. Here is how you can use a .NET ComboBox in a rollout: rollout dotNetComboBoxTest “.NET ComboBox T…

I’ve developed a small utility plugin using the .NET Xml parser this week-end. I’ll post the code when I’ll come back home. EDIT: I’ve just updated m…

What linker errors are you having ? (error number + message) In Max 2008 SDK documentation there’s some tips about mixing managed and unmanaged code….

Here is the source code of the project : It’s an utility plugin showing a .NET Form. I’ll try to create a plugin (an exporter I think) using the .NE…

Under 3ds Max 9 it’s possible as the supported development platform is Visual Studio 2005 and C++/CLI was added in this version. But for 3ds Max 8, th…

Fabiomussarela: Wow, very cool I think the problem is the setpixels command, It´s very slow. Using some .net to build the bitmap may speed thinks u…

Use loadMaxFile(). Look at the method documentation in the Reference.

So, it looks that it’s not related to the MAXScript code.

DaXiiD: But here comes an other problem probably due to my lack of experience with dotNET/Directinput via maxscript Maybe you’re the first in the…

ToString() method is useful to print non-string managed values: test.ProductGUID.ToString() The ProductName seems good but if you print the Guid val…

Visual C++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005, but with 2 hotfixes installed – see “Requirements for Development Platform” in the doc) is the compiler for 3ds Ma…