MAXScript / DotNet Value Conversions

Automatic Conversion

The following table shows the native MAXScript value types and the DotNet value types they can be converted to in 3ds Max 9 and higher.

Integer, Integer64, IntegerPtr, Float, Double, MSTime

Byte, SByte, Decimal, Int16, UInt16, Int32, UInt32, IntPtr, UIntPtr, Int64, UInt64, Single, Double

Boolean

Boolean

String

String, Char array

The following table shows the DotNet value types and the native MAXScript value type they are converted to.

Byte, SByte, Decimal, Int16, UInt16, Int32, UInt32

Integer

Int64, UInt64

Integer64

IntPtr, UIntPtr

IntegerPtr

Single

Float

Double

Double

Boolean

Boolean

String, Char array

String

Explicit Conversion

The following method performs a conversion of a MAXScript value to a DotNet value.

Available in 3ds Max 2010 and higher.

dotNet.ValueToDotNetObject <value> { <dotNetClass> | <dotNetObject> }

Returns a dotNetObject value where the MAXScript value passed as first argument is converted to a DotNet object of the type specified by the second argument.

This allows for the easy creation of DotNet arrays from MAXScript arrays:

type = dotNetClass "System.Int32[]"
dotNetClass:System.Int32[]
res = dotnet.ValueToDotNetObject #(11,12,23) type
dotNetObject:System.Int32[]
res.length
3
res.getvalue 2 --DotNet arrays arezero-based!
23