max2018: maxscript menu with icons

[Kreaction]

Hi,

In max 2014 I have a custom menu (in main toolbar) with internal tools that is defined at startup with maxscript.

Editing MaxActionItemsOverlay.xml file, with enhanced menus all my customs icons are there.

In max 2018, I can't get this to work. Via interface or maxscript or manually editing MaxActionItemsOverlay.xml, I can't get those icons appearing with my custom menu.

Default max UI template just after install, how can we ad some custom icons in our customs menus/menuitems ?

We heavily rely on such custom menus full of custom tools, and seeing a list of text isnt very efficient...

I do it with maxscript at startup (basically deleting menu and recreating it) due to often updates in these tools. I guess I could also save a menu file just for this menu, if there is a maxscript command to merge a menu into the main toolbar without destroying each one customization. But actually, I can't see how to it, even the python example doesn't have anything regarding icons, even in the sdk doc.

[Anonymous]

Hi, previous guy here. I did indeed get this to work after fiddling about and then using Drews info. As he has said in the max folder there is a folder called UI_In.

In that folder there are two folders called:

icons

iconsDark

In each of those folders, I created a folder called:

Dark

Light

In each of these folders I created a folder called:

my_icons

I put my  icons inside both versions of my_icons, with each icon having different sizes:

myTool_16.png

myTool_24.png

myTool_30.png

myTool_36.png

myTool_48.png

In my macro file i have the following as part of the macro definition

iconName: "my_icons/myTool"

You do not need to specify the size as Max will determine which to use relative to where you place it in the ui, as a menu item, sub menu or toolbar etc.

As part of a pipeline I am helping to build, I wrote code to generate a macro, icon(s) etc that gets copied to max`s folder structure and builds a menu on startup. 

Unfortunately, I am unable to share it at this time, but it is possible.

I will try and put up what I can to help but might not be this week.

hope this help. Please reply here or send me a PM if you want to discuss it 

regards