Around the Corner

Distributing Maya Apps - Porthaton is around the corner

Following this announcement. Here is an post from a colleague of mine Vjaya Prakash who is based in India (Bangalore) and mainly support the Maya API. People who wants to distribute their Apps which is going to be used by Maya users, they have to follow some semantics. You can watch the video of how to install sample apps and how to use those apps inside Maya here. If you are still thinking about where to start please see here.... Read more →

ADN Maya API training material freely available

Back from vacation, ..., and a tons of emails to process :( But I can see a light that is coming to an end. If you tried to contact me and not yet received an answer, please ping me again. Anyway I am pleased to announce that after many years we decided to publish our API training material as we will continue to maintain it in future. The video recordings are already published here: for Maya, for 3ds Max, for... Read more →

Exchange App Webinar

Register and mark your calendars now for this upcoming webcast on making the most of the Autodesk Exchange Apps store ... "How developers can ride and profit from the adoption wave of Autodesk Exchange Apps" The Autodesk Exchange Apps stores (currently there are 15 stores) are a huge opportunity for developers to gain direct access to the growing number of Autodesk customers using Exchange Apps. In just one year there’s been over one million visits and over 250,000 downloads. With... Read more →

API webcast archives

As part of our ADN Open work to move our API content to more accessible (search-engine-findable) locations, I'm posting our webcast archives to this blog. Some of these recordings are old now, but still contain useful information for people on legacy releases. And, being recordings of live webcasts, they are not as polished as our DevTV recordings. Note that the developer center pages contains additional material which go along the latest training webcast listed below. 3ds Max - http://www.autodesk.com/develop3dsmax Title... Read more →

Webcast in the making

I thought I’d mention one of the projects we’re working on in DevTech right now. While the Maya Python training as been delivered already (and recorded - see my previous post), there is more coming: MotionBuilder/OpenReality SDK (Python/C++) starting on May 29th 2012 - 1 hour per day during 9 days 3ds Max SDK (C++) starting on July 16th 2012 for English - 1 hour per day during 10 days July 30th 2012 for Japanese - 1 hour per day... Read more →

Getting started with Autodesk's APIs

Autodesk has a wide range of products that expose Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), to the point that it can be a bit overwhelming for developers new to our products. A great place to look for introductory information around developing with Autodesk software is the Developer Center on Autodesk.com: http://www.autodesk.com/developer From here you will be able to navigate to individual Developer Centers for a number of our products, some of which I’ve provided direct links to below: http://www.autodesk.com/developmaya (Maya) http://www.autodesk.com/develop3dsMax (3ds... Read more →