Maya has a nice spring ik solver. maybe implement it into max?   Show More

There are ways to do softbodies in 3Ds but the houdini vellum solver works across the board for many different things, and it very fast and accurate.    would be cool to see a tool like this in 3ds max Show More

Please make Softimage XSI open Source as in Blender.  Show More

Hi guys; define the dummy as a world: it's so useful if we have the ability to set the dummy as the world and we can rotate the whole rigged object and assemble linked objects to the world dummy every orientation of the scene. we can do it now by expression but it saves a ton of time. and game engine (construct 2)  is a good example for easier and cleaner expression formula parking please update the max expression.   Show More

I know it's a long shot, but with the new M1 chips that Apple has produced, I think there should be some serious consideration in making 3ds Max compatible with Mac OS. No doubt many creators use the Apple platform as their main content creation, and skip on 3ds Max and turn to Maya, Cinema 4D or Blender for 3D because it is PC only.  3ds Max for Mac OS would open up the 3d software to a whole new section of content creators and allow it to take advantage of the new M1 chips that are becoming increasingly better by the day. Or at least create a render system that will allow 3ds Max files to be rendered on a MAC. Show More

By default output from MaxScript is either blue (for output) or red (for error messages). It would be nice if you could control the color that's used by the python logging module so that instead of printing everything in red debug and info messages would be printed in blue instead.     In the following small example the first two should be printed in blue (as they're not errors) and only the last one in red.   import logging logging.basicConfig(level='DEBUG') log = logging.getLogger() log.debug('debug') log.info('info') log.error('error') Show More

These are exposed to Mascript as the following:  "isSelectionFrozen()", "freezeSelection()" and "thawSelection()". There is also a toggle command: "max spacebar"   The feature is referred to as alternatively "frozen/thawed", "Lock Selection Set" and "Selection Lock", and of course "spacebar".   There are several threads asking for a way to implement this functionality, while this search returns zero results: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22selection+lock%22+%22isSelectionFrozen%22   Suggested solution: Consistently name the functionality (The popular and simply descriptive term is "selection lock"), update the relevant functions and consolidate the documentation.     References: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAXDEV/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-2C42EF48-5949-4EC9-A067-EBE1267CCBFD https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAXDEV/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-A96857E7-73FE-4F42-BE71-E8185356F4C9 https://www.google.com/search?q=maxscript+%22selection+lock%22&ei=dZiCYYmbE5iCjLsPzqmEoAw&oq=maxscript+%22selection+lock%22 Show More

the faster I can get to texturing rigging the faster I can get to animation. Show More

if the uv's on a cube worked like shadow box and max connected to a neural ai library like the ai playground and stuff that would super speed up model creation and game creation, sent my thoughts to report a problem though so not sure if anyone who needs to see that sees it idk srry message is already sent but another idea would be a courtesy copy to my email. 😃 happy maxing  Show More

For writing custom attributes and scripted plugins, it would be nice if we could use the DataPair() class.   #dataPair #dataPairTab   This would be very beneficial for arbitrary data storage where the data rules are generated (like storing data for game engine entities).   Currently to store this kind of data requires clunky workarounds like storing the data in strings and reparsing. Show More

3ds max should be available for Mac as well. As there are plenty of users who want to use 3ds max on their MacBook Show More

Right now the MAXScript access to keyboard is limited to just modifier keys:   keyboard.shiftPressed keyboard.controlPressed keyboard.altPressed keyboard.escPressed   I propose that there is also a new readonly parameter: keyboard.otherKeyPressed   This parameter will return true if any key other than SHIFT, CONTROL, ALT and ESC is pressed.   Why would you want this?   I built a collection of MacroScripts that I wanted to include a default Alternate Action that would, instead of running the action, take the user to a documentation URL for the action. So I arbitrarily chose the SHIFT key. This way, if the user SHIFT-CLICKS the macroscript in the menu bar, the user will go to the documentation. There is one problem with this: if the user assigns a keyboard shortcut that uses SHIFT, the function won't run as the user expects.   If this new parameter is added, you can do something like this in a MacroScript without worrying about colliding with keyboard shortcuts (which require more than a modifier key):   if (keyboard.shiftPressed AND NOT keyboard.otherKeyPressed) then ( --do alternate action ) else ( --do primary function )   Show More

please improve scriptable spline support (... without mouse input) like trim, vertex,crossinsert,fillet,chamfer,....... also mcg has only a mesh modifier ,... spline is missing there is a big lag compared to mesh, improving that gives us new posibilities! Show More

I would like to ask the managers and creators of 3D Max to stop these annual updates, which are only aimed at Financial Marketing rather than improvements, as the program is getting heavier and heavier, Max 2023 is looking like a Christmas tree with colorful icons, the that within the visual hierarchy is very polluted. Icon changes, in the location of some commands, totally unnecessary. I think even the 2019 version has a good size. Just my suggestion! I know professional who work today only with still images and achieve realism with Max 2016. Show More

Currently, the resource folder is automatically selected from max's language settings and the resource files are loaded. We would like to be able to explicitly switch the resource folder with a script. This would meet the needs of users who want to use scripts in Japanese but in an English environment. Currently, we have to resort to the strange method of putting Japanese resource files in the en-us folder. Show More

Expanding Snap Struct feedback Currently snap functionality only gives back single points (positions), such as snapMode.hitPoint and snapMode.refPoint. https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAXDEV/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-9D393805-DF20-4EB3-934D-731A707DE81A   But some snap modes deal with more than just points, such as Edge/Segment and Midpoint which deals with what is essentially lines with direction.   I suggest that instead of just providing points, for the snap modes that involves edges and segments also provide information about the segment, such as: • Direction (vector between the two points of the segment). • Normal (normalized vector between the two points).   This feedback would be useful when creating custom tools that deal with edges and alignment, as it is more convenient just picking one edge rather than having to pick two points to achieve the same thing.   A few other ideas for other snapping modes. • Face and Center Face - face normal. • Bounding Box - bounding box size as Box3 value.  • Pivot - pivot transform.   pickEdge() function Picking points in the viewport is something users have been able to do for a very long time: https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAXDEV/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-42CD0531-6BD1-4489-B5A0-C001F4EE577B But what if there was a similar function specifically for picking edges? Edges provide useful data in many ways, but it is currently difficult to extract edge/segment information from scenes the way we can pick points.   To pick a specific edge requires potentially overly complicated workarounds that could be significantly simplified with a pick mode that only allows you to pick edges on geometry objects, or segments in splines, and extract useful information from the pick. In a similar manner as the snap suggestion above, such information could involve: • Direction. • Normal. • The vertices connected to the edge (positions and vertex IDs). Show More

Hi,   this should work similar to the way nuke implemented this where you can just import the nuke python module in standalone scripts and get the full power of nuke without having to resort to call cmdline nuke and inject a script or the likes.   Essentially i'd like to be able to do "import pymxs" and "import MaxPlus" in a python script and when run using Max's bundled interpreter it would load max headless in the back and give me the full power of 3d Studio Max in a python script.   This would complement the new -batch mode that was introduced with 2018.2   Cheers, Thorsten Show More