New Maxscript Tutorial Series

New Maxscript Tutorial Series - Beginner to Intermediate by Kevin Harper.

3dsMaxScript.com

3dsMaxScript.com is a new web site (Turkish) for MAXScript tutorials.

Using SoX audio utility in 3ds Max

SoX is a cross-platform command-line audio utility (more info, docs, downloads), mostly used for audio file format conversion but it also armed with enough effects for quick composing. SoX is a very welcome tool to all batch script lovers, its free, still in development, and can be used with any program that can dump data to text file.

This blog article show nice introduction on how to use SoX in 3ds Max for quick audio sync composition to our animation, also show how to add some additional audio effects.

Creating Light Cycle Effects

A new video tutorial in 9 parts at 3dsMaxHowTos section.

LED style animation with MAXScript

Just illustration of an example approach which can be done and without writing code but there also a few points where using MAXScript (3ds Max scripting) can save alot of time.

Ok, I don't want to repeat my self by rewriting all description, more details at ScriptSpot. Also just to note that this quick tutorial just illustrate the idea of using "brush" but its prepared just for circular brush printing.

Submit jobs to deadline

A tutorial by Klaas Nienhuis posted at ScriptSpot about how to submit jobs to deadline via MaxScript.

Free Streaming Tutorials by 3d-Place

3d-Place open new section of their web site - Free Streaming Tutorials, where they plan to released new video tutorials on each Monday and Friday.

How To Rig A Crank-Connecting Rod System

Very quick video tutorial (51 secends) by Henrique Lundeqvist shows crank rig made with wireing expression.

Fit the UVW Mapping Gizmo

Fit the UVW Mapping Gizmo is a macro script for 3ds Max 2008 and higher, and will works in previous version with free AVG extensions installed.

Hardly need to explain what Fit gizmo do in UVW Mapping modifier, nor yet the need and benefit of it automation via script, right?

That operation is not directly accessible to MAXScript, but thanks to Borislav "Bobo" Petrov and his nice tutorial on this task. He explain very well (as always) the matrix transforms.

Well, maybe my code hold some learning value too. However, as I not found such script online, I hope my script would be welcome to all Max'ers. (Script page)

Self Referencing Script Controllers

It's a known problem, I think. The recursion issue appear if we call itself from within Script Controller. The main subject of this thread is how to simplify the "bypass" that usually we made with Custom Attributies. So, I think its s'd be interesting subject for animators and mostly riggers, for scripters maybe too. Usually I suggest workaround that I call "proxy controller", as it's easy for understanding and following, but this time I decide to share and another approach that not so abstract as it looks. It's based on "at time" context which made self-call safety. Well, I'll not going to repeat myself, so just read the forum topic. Cheers!

Stretchable Bone Chain

A video tutorial by Henrique Lundeqvist on how to make a stretchable bone chain in 3ds Max.

MAXScript icon layout

Othoap posted illustrative tutorial for MAXScripters which deal with custom .bmp icon files in their scripted UI's.

3D-Place celebrate

3D-Place.com celebrate coming back with free tutorials, plus new site and forum design.

Bendy limbs tutorial

A tutorial by Felix Joleanes that covers the creation of Bendy rigs in 3ds max. (thanks to JoDaC for the web link to that tutorial)

Apache web version of Backburner monitor

Very interesting (to me) tutorial by Alex York on how to setup the apache web version of 3ds Max's Backburner monitor.

My sincere gratitude goes to the Max Underground (the best source for 3ds Max news)
where I read a news about this article.

Scene file recovery

Two parts tutorial at MaxStation blog on how to recover max scene file that fail to open. The first part cover how to do that by hand and the second part - how to automate the process with MAXScript.

Procedural Snow

A new step by step tutorial by Cristian Pop (at CGTuts+) on creating snow cap over object using Particle Flow and Blob Mesh. It's probably very popular technique but worth to read it though.

Learn3D tutorials

An other depot tutorials site for Max, Maya, etc (that I see for the first time, lol).

Using Substance Maps

A new 3 parts tutorial by Autodesk at their YouTube channel.

Why Real-World Scale?

TurboSquid posted new video tutorial on their YouTube channel.

Why should you make your model to real-world scale? One good reason is dynamics simulation, which relies on real-world scale to do its job right.