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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 →

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 →

Lost in classes

Both my class and Kevin's one at AU aren't yet full. If you haven't registered yet and going to AU, please give a stop to our classes, I promiss you'll not be disapointed. But for this you also need to register to these classes. There’s more detail on the class timing & description here: Using .NET Programming in Autodesk® Maya® Wednesday, Nov 28, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Kevin Vandecar, for the ADN M&E team will also be presenting in... Read more →

Introduction to MotionBuilder OpenReality SDK Programming DevTV Video

I have just recently completed a MotionBuilder DevTV, called “Introduction to MotionBuilder OpenReality SDK Programming”. This is located on the public Autodesk MotionBuilder Developer Center page, under the title DevTV: http://www.autodesk.com/developmotionbuilder This is a quick start guide (1.5 hours), the primary goal is: How to sit down and write your first plug-in Learn the general structure and capability of the SDK Where to go to find out more The target audience for this DevTV material: Familiar with the MotionBuilder product... 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 →