Category: 3ds Max
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What’s new in 3ds Max 2027?
A few weeks ago, 3ds Max 2027 was officially released, introducing new features and capabilities for both artists and developers. With this release, 3ds Max saw many upgrades including Arnold to 5.9.0, USD to 0.14.0, Substance to 3.0.6, performance improvements across tools, modifiers, and render workflows, and much more. Refer to the product release page…
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Guardrails for Using AI in Autodesk Plugin Development
This post outlines curated guardrails for the effective use of Copilot and other agentic AI tools when developing plugins and extensions for Autodesk authoring applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. I used ChatGPT to help refine the wording. Consider it quiet LLM cannibalism. :) These guardrails can be enforced by placing them in your…
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Upgrading 3ds Max .NET projects from .NET Framework to .NET 8
3ds Max 2025 and earlier versions have relied on the .NET Framework for building plugins. However, with the VFX world transitioning to .NET, 3ds Max 2026 fully embraces this change. As a result, .NET projects require a bit of housekeeping to compile and work with .NET 8. This post is a simple walkthrough of the…
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What’s new in 3ds Max 2026?
A few weeks ago, 3ds Max 2026 saw its official release, introducing new features and capabilities for both artists and developers. With this release, 3ds Max saw many upgrades in Arnold to 5.8, Substance to 3.0.8, performance improvements in different modifiers, and much more. Refer to the release page for a detailed feature change for…
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Porting Plugins from 3ds Max 2024 to 3ds Max 2025
3ds Max 2025 came with some breaking changes that marked an era of new approaches aimed at improving performance at the core. As a result, some tools tailored to pre-2025 3ds Max versions may fail to load into 2025. In this blog, we will give you a walkthrough of how to handle porting a plugin…
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Porting MaxPlus to pymxs – What you need to know
Porting MaxPlus to pymxs – What you need to know Introduction As of 3ds Max 2022, the MaxPlus library is deprecated. This blog intends to assist those using MaxPlus to transition to pymxs for 3ds Max. This article will focus on an example of porting the xref system from MaxPlus to pymxs. As of 3ds…
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3ds Max 2024 Released!
Well, another year has passed, and another great release of 3ds Max has arrived. Check out the new features of 3ds Max 2024 here. Changes for the 3ds Max 2024 SDK are documented here. Highlights from the SDK include: SDK Break – means you should recompile any plugins for use with 3ds Max 2024. 3ds…
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Learning 3ds Max SDK – My Journey
Image adapted from http://aneeswork.blogspot.com/2015/10/3d-interior-design-3ds-max-vray.html Learning 3ds Max SDK: My Journey One thing has always fascinated me for a very long time, that is, programming. I used to really wonder how big software did work and how they came to being. The absolute beauty of just writing English grammar with some semantics and later the computer…
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