Useful MAXScript Tips

Accessing the 3ds Max SDK

You can load the Autodesk.Max.dll assembly to use the 3ds Max SDK from MAXScript. Add the following MAXScript code to your start-up scripts and use the MaxGlobal variable to access the 3ds Max SDK as shown in the following example.

fn loadAutodeskMax = (
  local Assembly = dotNetClass "System.Reflection.Assembly"
  local maxroot = pathConfig.GetDir #maxroot
  Assembly.LoadFile (maxroot + "\\Autodesk.Max.dll")
  local GlobalInterface = dotNetClass "Autodesk.Max.GlobalInterface"  
  global MaxGlobal = GlobalInterface.Instance
)
loadAutodeskMax ()

See Autodesk.Max.dll for more information about the assembly.

Executing the MAXScript Code

You can execute MAXScript code using the ExecuteMAXScriptScript() global function. See the maxscript\maxscript.h header for more information. Also, see Calling MAXScript from C++.

Text Output to the MAXScript Listener Window

You can output text to the MAXScript listener window as follows:

#include <maxscript/maxscript.h>
#include <maxscript/util/listener.h>
...
the_listener->edit_stream->printf("Hello") 
// you could also define a handy macro:
#define DebugPrint (the_listener->edit_stream->printf)