Thanks guys :) LoTekK - Yes, you can listen to/watch Audio/Video files :) I'm about to add a volume slider as well. Right now you can Play/Pause and Scrub through them. Bryan - I'm just using VS2010. This seems to work fine. I've messed with Expression Blend, but don't feel I need it for what I was doing. To both Denny and…
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ3NIuh3sdw"]ZBrush UI enhancement[/ame] Here's a first look at tool I'm developing for ZBrush. The goal was to make brush selection and modification quicker and easier. I wanted to streamline the experience and keep our pens on the canvas. It can be viewed as a gestural selection menu…
we finally got around implementing an updater (think windows update) for our scripts, plugins and tools. It runs in the tray, is 0-install - just run it, it pops up notifications when software needs to be updated and can install everything automatically (e.g. maya scripts, 3ds max scripts). The updater can also update…
This is something I made a long time ago. Its a floating toolbar for max with customizable buttons. Its source files are stored completely separate from the 3ds max install directory so its really easy to setup with a version control system. I currently have it setup with version control at work so if someone adds a button…
Aside from getting ready to switch software packages and engines I haven't been working on too much other than small stuff like this: ScaleSpin, it adds a spinner to the curve editor to help you control the position of the scale origin. For regular max objects Monsters scale snap works great, but it doesn't handle all…
Thanks for the tip with the hotkey. I'll try that if sleep doesn't work. Launching processes via ZFileUtils sounds useful too, although not for my current needs. I go via my own dll for launching Python because I want to monitor the process, I have to pass a port number to Python for socket communication, I have to tell it…
yeah you can do the same in max and even automate it using the volume select (or vol. select) modifier on a grid of vertex points in a mesh. Then apply cubes on all of the selected verts of that mesh - done! But what all of those examples fail to do is picking color values from the mesh texture - or it's uv space. Using…
I decided to benchmark my 3D collision detection routine recently, and it's fast. Very fast. Here's a demo - http://rumblesushi.com/grid2.html Hold 1 to add upto 1000 objects. Press C to switch to a FPS camera, which is a collidable object too. On the above demo with 1000 active objects I get 38 fps. The exact same demo…
Happy New Year wished! @Renderhjs: thanks again for the suggestions! it is really boosting my UI-layout, and was able to throw some useless icons away and making it more compact! There are still some parts I need to change that you suggested. @MattLichy: thanks for the compliment. I did some new changes in UI and…
getting my hands dirty with C++ and ZScript and managed to write a C++ DLL which I can load in a ZScript with FileExecute.... which then continues to host a .NET CLR with a loaded C# dll, which then launches a Python script (we use the same C# dll from Max). C# talks to Python via ZMQ (thanks to Rob Galanakis for…