topic Re: Max Script Tutor in 3ds Max Programming Forum

Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:09:55 GMT

hi friends,

i want to study max script.......that's all 🙂

plz help me...refer me a tutorial or a ebook or something to study from the basics to advanced level of max script...for me i have only know c++. is it will help me to understand max script?

HELP!!!!

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:21:53 GMT

The documentation that comes with Max is extremely helpful and it starts with the basics.

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:05:36 GMT

Looking at existing MAXScripts is also extremely helpful.

To me, one of the biggest differences in C/C++ syntax and MAXScript syntax is the way parenthesis are used. They serve the same purpose as curly-brackets {} in C++. Also, when calling functions, you do not put the arguments in parenthesis or separate then with commas. A number of people moving from C++ to MAXScript make this mistake.

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:48:32 GMT

dear friends,

The help files supplied with max feels advanced and may me indented to max script ( or something like that) people,
i dont understand their style....i need a detail tutorial only for the basic...like how i can create objects...scale, rotate, move etc....

and also need add segments .....i need only such introduction...

in max help file i don't get the result...they said <Sphere()>
<Sphere:Sphere01()>
<sphere01.segements=32> ect...

and i doesn't work.....only said errors!!!

HELP!!!

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:57:41 GMT

If that is the exact code you used, then notice that you have "segments" spelled incorrectly. Also, try the following in the listener window:

mysphere = sphere()
mysphere.segs = 32

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:58:35 GMT

The second line (Sphere:Sphere01) is probably the response you receive in the listener. Sphere01 is not a variable; it is the object's name in the scene. You can access it by using a dollar-sign in front of the name, like $Sphere01. The better way to do it would be to assign it to a variable, since the default name will change depending on the names of the objects already in the scene.

Try this:


s = Sphere()
s.segments = 32

(Note the open/close parenthesis pair after Sphere; function calls don't use parenthesis around arguments, but you need to do this to call a function with no arguments.)

Re: Max Script Tutor

Steve_Curley — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:59:41 GMT

Firstly, this is totally the wrong forum for this question - there is one specifically for MaxScript questions.

Perhaps a passing can move it?

Secondly, you need to read the reference carefully - all the information is there, but you do have to look for it.
As Stokes said,

 s = Shphere()
s.segments = 64

Or, if you want to use parameters instead,

 s = Sphere segments:64

For a more generic answer look up "Constructor" in the help.

Re: Max Script Tutor

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:02:51 GMT

In case you haven't seen this particular section of the MAXScript help, here is what I was referring to. See attached...