Max script 2014
@AlBalushi13 wrote:
Hello,
I have started observing 3DS Max behavior from the listener and macro recorder window. I was finally able to create small scripts like the one demonstrated in the video below. I still have so many questions in my head about Max script. I will sum up my doubts in the following lines:
why Max script can not record some actions?. For example; when I create editable mesh and I try to click on vertex, the recorder will start writing but when I clear the selection of the vertex by clicking anywhere in the empty work space, the recorder will not recognize that action and nothing will be written on the max script window.
MAXScript wasn't there from the start, it was a third-party plugin that got incorporated into max around max 2. As such, there are quite a few things that are inaccessible to it and some it doesn't register.
@AlBalushi13 wrote:
If there is no way to see specific actions interpreted in the macro recorder (like in the example mentioned earlier), is there any other way of understanding 3ds max programming for the sake of developing those particular actions?
I'd advise against using macro recorder if you want to learn maxscript, real human-made and human-parseable scripts look nothing like its output. Read the introductory chapters of the MAXScript reference, the How to chapters, and then the specifics, for example polyop topic for editable poly manipulation.
