The following page will give you a quick overview of the MAXScript language changes and improvements in 3ds Max 2016. For details on each feature, please follow the links to the respective documentation pages.
The new
Physical : camera object provides an advanced camera exposing physical lens controls, film width controls
and presets, and built-in exposure gain controls.
The new
iray_Section : helper can be used to produce sections of the scene geometry at render time.
The new
Crease : Modifier can be used to define edge creases on geometry objects.
The new
CreaseSet : Modifier can be used to manage sets of edge creases.
The new
OpenSubdiv : Modifier implements the Pixar OpenSubdiv libraries in
3ds Max.
The new
Alembic_Export : ExporterPlugin can be used to export scene objects to the Alembic .ABC file format.
The new Alembic_Import : ImporterPlugin can be used to import objects from Alembic .ABC files into the scene.
The new
AlembicCamera : Camera class implements the Camera object imported from an Alembic .ABC file.
The new
AlembicContainer : GeometryClass object is used by the Alembic Importer to represent the root for grouping object
imported from the same file.
The new
AlembicObject : GeometryClass object is used to represent a geometry entity imported from an Alembic .ABC file.
The new
AlembicXform : Matrix3Controller is used to load the object transformation animation data from an Alembic .ABC file.
The new
simpleMeshMod Scripted Plug-in class allows the processing of the incoming TriMesh on the stack and is used by the
Max Creation Graph system to implement procedural modifiers.
The new
ATF_Alias_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework Alias file format Importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_CATIA_V4_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework CATIA v4 file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_CATIA_V5_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework CATIA v5 file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_IGES_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework IGES file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_JT_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework JT file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_ProE_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework ProE file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_Solidworks_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework Solidworks file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_STEP_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework STEP file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
ATF_UG_NX_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Translation Framework UG-NX file format importer to MAXScript.
The new
Revit_importer : ImporterPlugin exposes the Autodesk Revit file format inporter to MAXScript.
The new
Multi_Sub_Object : Material exposes the empty multi-sub Material to MAXScript. It provides no properties or methods.
The new
builtin_displace_mdl : textureMap implements a displace shader using the NVIDIA Material Definition Language (MDL).
The new
builtin_function_mdl : textureMap implements a function shader using the NVIDIA Material Definition Language (MDL).
The new
builtin_mdl_multiply_scalar : textureMap implements a multiply by scalar shader using the NVIDIA Material Definition Language
(MDL).
The new
max_physical_camera_lens : textureMap represents the mental ray shader implementation of the new
Physical : camera object.
The new
Float_XRef_Controller : FloatController is used to expose Float parameters of XRef objects.
The new
Point3_XRef_Controller : Point3Controller is used to expose Point3 parameters of XRef objects.
The new
iray__Alpha : RenderElement can be used to output transparency information from the iRay renderer.
The new
iray__Irradiance : RenderElement can be used to output irradiance information from the iRay renderer.
The new
iray__normal : RenderElement can be used to output surface normals information from the iRay renderer.
The new
iray__Matte_Environment : textureMap can be used to output matte information from the iRay renderer.
The new
mr_Ambient_Occlusion : RenderElement can be used to output ambient information from the iRay renderer.
The new
Physical_Camera_Exposure_Control : ToneOperator exposes the Physical Camera Exposure Control to MAXScript.
The new
Interface: Autodesk360 provides methods related to initializing the web services, logging in and out, and
querying login info from the Autodesk 360 service.
The new
Interface: CreaseSetManager provides methods to create and manage CreaseSets.
The new
Interface: CreaseExplorerManager provides methods to manage the Crease Explorer window including programmatically
opening and closing it, as well as loading and saving its configuration to disk.
The new Interface: RevitImportWorkflow exposes no properties or methods.
The new
Interface: paramPublishMgr exposes methods to initiate the parameter publishing and to add a parameter by its
index.
In the existing
Chamfer : Modifier, several new properties have been added:
.limiteffect ,
.useminangle ,
.usemaxangle ,
.minangle ,
.maxangle , and
.smoothtoadjacent .
In the existing
DirectX_9_Shader : Material, a new property has been added:
.shaderfxgraph .
In the existing
Edit_Poly : Modifier, several new properties have been added:
.dataChannel ,
.dataValue ,
.hardedgedisplay , and
.hardedgedisplaycolor .
In the existing
Editable_Poly : GeometryClass, several new properties have been added:
.hardedgedisplay and
.hardedgedisplaycolor .
In the existing
Interface: EditablePoly, several new methods have been added:
.makeHardEdges() ,
.makeSmoothEdges() ,
.selectHardEdges() , and
.selectSmoothEdges() .
In the existing
iRay_Renderer : RendererClass, several new properties have been added:
.displacementDisplaceMethod ,
.displacementParametricSubdivisionLevel ,
.textureCompressionEnabled , and
.textureCompressionMinResolution .
In the existing
max_base_GBuffer_lens : textureMap, several new properties have been added:
.pauseEventLow ,
.pauseEventHigh ,
.pauseEventLow_connected ,
.pauseEventLow_shader ,
.pauseEventLow_paramName ,
.pauseEventHigh_connected ,
.pauseEventHigh_shader , and
.pauseEventHigh_paramName .
In the existing
renderers struct, three new properties have been added:
.renderDialogMode ,
.renderButtonText , and
.target .
In the existing
max_rtt_output : textureMap, a new property has been added:
.elementIndex .
In the existing mental_ray_renderer : RendererClass, several new properties have been added:
.Displace_Method ,
.EnableLIS , and
.LISQuality .
In the existing
Normalize_Spl : Modifier, a new
.Accuracy property has been added.
In the existing
Skin : Modifier, a new property has been added:
.enableDQ .
In the existing
XRefObject : Node, a new property has been added to the IXRefProxy Interface:
.useLocal .
In the existing
XRef_Controller : Matrix3Controller, a new property has been added:
.xrefCtrlStatus .
In the existing
Interface : objXRefMgr, two new properties have been added:
.includeAll and
.enableUseLocalProxySettings .
In the existing
XRef_Material : Material, two new properties have been added:
.enableOverride and
.overrideMaterial .
In the existing
LayerProperties MixinInterface, three new methods have been added:
canDelete() ,
getNumNodes() , and
hasSceneXRefNodesInHierarchy() .
In the existing
Interface: AssetManager, the new method
AssetManager.RemoveMissingAssets() has been added.
In the existing
Interface: maxOps, the new property
maxOps.isRenderActive has been added.
In the existing
Interface: PlacementTool, the two new methods
PlacementTools.ShowOptionDialog() and
PlacementTool.GetCommandMode() have been added.
In the existing
Interface: SteeringWheelOps, the new property
SteeringWheel.loadOptions() has been added.
In the existing
Interface: ViewCubeOps, the new property
ViewCubeOps.loadOptions() has been added.
Several properties have been removed from the existing
mental_ray_renderer : RendererClass:
.FinalGatherMinRadius ,
.FinalGatherMinRadius_View ,
.FinalGatherOnly ,
.FinalGatherPreview ,
.FinalGatherRadius ,
.FinalGatherRadius_View ,
.FinalGatherUseRadiusInterpolation ,
.FinalGatherView ,
.UseFinalGatherMinRadius ,
.UseFinalGatherRadius , and
.view .
In the existing
Egg : Shape, the existing properties have been changed from float to worldUnits type:
.egg_length ,
.egg_thickness , and
.egg_width .
In the existing
Ellipse : Shape, the existing properties have been changed from float to worldUnits type:
.ellipse_thickness ,
.length , and
.width .
In the existing
Interface: EPolyManipGrip, the new enum
#VertexCrease has been added to the two existing methods:
EPolyManipGrip.SetManipulateGrip() and
EPolyManipGrip.GetManipulateGrip() .
In the existing
Interface: AssetManager, the new enum
#MaxCreationGraph has been added to the assetType argument of the two existing methods:
AssetManager.GetAssetId() and
AssetManager.GetAsset() .
In the existing
Interface: FileResolutionManager, the new enum
#MaxCreationGraph has been added to the assetType argument of the two existing methods:
FileResolutionManager.GetFullFilePath() and
FileResolutionManager.GetAssetTypeString() .
In the existing
Interface: maxOps, the existing read-only property
maxOps.productAppID can only contain
#max and the exiting read-only property
maxOps.productID can only contain
#3dsMax in
3ds Max 2016 due to the retiring of
3ds Max Design.
In the existing
Interface: pop, the enums list of the existing property
pop.DisplayType has been changed to remove the
#Segmented option.
A new
LayerManager.doesLayerHierarchyContainNodes() method has been added to the existing
Interface: LayerManager.
A new
LayerManager.deleteLayerHierarchy() method has been added to the existing
Interface: LayerManager.
A new
LayerManager.getDuplicateLayerWithoutSameHierarchyOnMerge() method has been added to the existing
Interface: LayerManager.
A new
LayerManager.setDuplicateLayerWithoutSameHierarchyOnMerge() method has been added to the existing
Interface: LayerManager.
In the existing methods
.SaveViewGraph() ,
.LoadViewGraph() ,
.UnloadViewGraph() ,
.SetViewShadeFragment() , and
.ResetViewShadeFragment() of the
NitrousGraphicsManager Interface, the existing
viewIndex argument type has been changed from <integer> to <index>.
A new
.GetFixedViewportPipeline() method has been added to the
NitrousGraphicsManager Interface.