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  • Using FBX SDK to make animated user properties that are compatible with 3ds Max

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    Cyrille Fauvel
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    A huge thanks to Kevin Vandecar, who supports both FBX and 3ds Max in the ADN M&E team working with me, and provide the original article for this post. This is a topic coming from one of our FBX SDK customers recently. Basically the animated properties were coming into MotionBuilder correctly, and after being exported from…

  • Vote for Visual Studio x64 Edit-and-Continue

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    Madhukar Moogala
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    A colleague in one of our product development teams pinged me today to ask for my support in voting up this request for Microsoft to implement x64 edit-and-continue. I’m sure this isn’t the first time this topic has been raised with Microsoft – but hopefully it will be the last . I went ahead and added my…

  • How I Plan a Tool…

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    Autodesk Alumni
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    This post isn’t super technical but more of peak into my thought process when creating tools, I think it is worth sharing and I would love to have other’s feedback if you have other thoughts that work for you. I was once asked by an attendee from one of my Maya API trainings if I…

  • API wishlist surveys

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    Cyrille Fauvel
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    This year’s API wishlist surveys for Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max are now live: Autodesk Maya Autodesk 3ds Max Our Engineering teams use the results from these surveys to help steer their ongoing API development priorities, release on release. If you have feedback or specific requests regarding our APIs, this is a great way…

  • Webcast in the making

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    Cyrille Fauvel
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    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++)…

  • Getting started with Autodesk’s APIs

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    Cyrille Fauvel
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    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…