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Localization strategies for 3ds Max Plug-ins

With the coming localized Autodesk Exchange stores, it is becoming more important for plug-in developers to localize their software. The exchange store provides a unique opportunity to be in front of customers all over the world. The best experience for a customer is to provide your software in their localized language. This post is meant to provide the resources to help you understand the localization of 3ds Max plug-ins and supporting customization files. C++ based plug-ins 3ds Max is now... Read more →

November’s Plugin of the Month live on Autodesk Labs: MASH nodes

Another month, another plugin. :-) As announced over on Scott’s blog a few days ago, the latest Plugin of the Month is now live. MASH is a suite of Maya nodes, developed in-house at Mainframe, aimed at enabling their artists to create versatile 'motion design' style animations. It offers a selection of effector nodes which can be daisy-chained together to generate a wide variety of customizable effects. It's fully controllable from both Maya's Attribute and Node Editors. MASH has been... Read more →

Coming on Autodesk Labs… “Plug-in of the Month”

This is less an announcement of something we’re doing than it is a call for input (or perhaps a cry for help? ;-). For the last 3 months, we started posting plug-ins on Autodesk Labs containing a “plug-in of the month, brought to you by the Autodesk Developer Network”. The plug-ins we’re providing will be simple productivity enhancing tools and utilities that streamline the use of one of our products. The drivers behind this are to a) solve customer problems... Read more →

a Mathematical DG Node

Many of you probably knows about the sineNode available in the Maya devkit written in C++ and/or Python. This example is very useful if you interested running the sin() function. But there is several limitations which make this example a bit dry. First, it is just the sin() function and with this approach it means you would need to create as many 'math' node you want mathematical functions. Second, it has one input and one output parameter only, so it... Read more →