Thanks a lot David! I can say that this document is the best reference covering the 3ds Max SDK. Great book and free!

Thanks for the reply Chris. I can see that there’s a lot of work done to improve Max speed, eficiency and stability. Very good… And it seems we’ll get…

It seems there are some memory leaks in 3ds Max 9 : Have to wait Version 10… But why these fixes/cleanup aren’t in the SPs ? Chris are you here ?

Yes, .Net controls are better designed than ActiveX. Some properties/methods have the same name but does not behave similarly. You can find the most …

d3coy: edit: Sorry Yannick same post No problem James :). But your post was explaining a bit more the methods Expand() and ExpandAll().

Are you applying Expand() method on a TreeNode ? Have you tested ExpandAll or Expand on the parent/root node ?

Thanks for the code snippets James. Thanks for sharing your tab control (take the time to clean your code ). .Net controls are beter and easiest to d…

Good looking tab control James. Yes, The Code Project website is great. is also an interesting resource.

Good luck Paul :). It’s easy to convert ActiveX controls to .Net but it’s hard to convert old (ugly) code.

See also NET_TreeViewWrapper.ms in stdplugs\stdscripts coded by Chris Johnson. It’s a wrapper around the .Net TreeView control; it contains some usefu…

Hi Shane, I think adding Python to 3ds Max would be a pain… Maya is well designed so adding Python to it wasn’t so difficult. It’s not the same story…

One advice: it’s better to use selection than $: for obj in selection do… $ is not safe. $ is only useful for quick development and debug but if y…

Kamid: Heres some of the problems I have encountered. The Floating Panel doesnt seem to work in Max 9. Did I do something wrong? Create a dialog…

See Creating Functions -> By Reference Parameter Passing in the documentation. By-reference parameter passing is very handy when you want to modif…

specxor: I thought the standard library was implemented? I’m not sure if Iron python makes it easier to add python scripting to a dot net app, maybe…