Category Archives: Lessons

Intricacies of 3ds Max Part 1

Posted on August 20, 2017 by davewortley

Half of what I know isn’t just how to solve a problem, but why that problem exists and when we are just using work-arounds to get around problems.  Here are a few examples which may seem illogical at first, but … Continue reading →

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Lesson 15: Enumeration Stations….

Posted on July 6, 2017 by davewortley

Sorry this blog has been neglected… Facebook makes things much easier to share… In some other….. ‘proper’… coding languages you have a function called Enumerate…. this allows you to iterate through an array and not only get the value but … Continue reading →

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Maya – Max: Why doesn’t 3dsmax have a Shape Node?

Posted on June 2, 2016 by davewortley

If you’re coming from Maya  to 3dsmax, or you’re learning Maya and getting confused as to why in Maya there are Transform and Shape node and in 3dmax it doesn’t look like there are… here’s a bit of a explanation, … Continue reading →

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MCG Tutorial: How to make a Select By Face Area Modifier

Posted on March 23, 2016 by davewortley

So you want to make a Select Face By Area modifier in MCG…. here’s a quick guide. You want two things to start with for making any modifier which modulates your existing mesh… a Modifier:TriMesh as your input and an … Continue reading →

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Lesson 14: Key principles of understanding working with MaxScript

Posted on March 3, 2014 by davewortley

Here are the key principles to working with MaxScript, you need to know about all the things listed below to be able to understand how to write scripts. Here is a brief overview and description of each thing, I’ll try … Continue reading →

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Lesson 11: What’s Bugging me? Part 2

Posted on October 17, 2013 by davewortley

According to my search engine page view requests it seems that lots of people are Googling these error messages so I thought I’d chuck a few more in to help people in their time of need. viewport.setcamera = newCam >> … Continue reading →

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Lesson 13: It’s all a matter of Scale (not just for maxscripters)

Posted on August 6, 2013 by davewortley

Please excuse the epic ranting rambling of this post, been writing bits of it for weeks, It’s not just for script writers, it’s for everyone who uses 3dsmax, It’s really worth a read and very very important to understand and … Continue reading →

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Lesson 12: qSort

Posted on July 12, 2013 by davewortley

I needed to sort an array recently and I realised that I needed to use qSort, but not ever having used it before, I was initially quite confused until I worked out how it works. So I thought I would … Continue reading →

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Lesson 12: Returning from Functions

Posted on April 21, 2013 by davewortley

I’ve missed a small bit about Functions out from these lessons which is crucial to understand what’s happening when using interfaces/methods… and when it comes to writing your own structs. You can get the result of a function by making … Continue reading →

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Lesson 11: What’s Bugging me? Part 1

Posted on February 6, 2013 by davewortley

Bug tracing and error finding sometimes takes longer than writing the original script! Here are some examples of error messages and what they could mean…. Don’t forget the Brackets! — Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: ; position: 20; line: … Continue reading →

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