Max Made Easy

03/03/2025

I almost forgot I had a blog....

It’s been a while, but I need something positive to contribute to at the moment! Here’s a maxscript function which will return the type of any property for a maxscript value. This will …

16/06/2023

What does this guy know anyway...

And just when you thought we were done... A surprise announcement!

Dave Wortley of Industrial Light and Magic will be doing a talk called "This is the V-Ray". If the title reminds you of a certain popular TV show that has to do with stars and wars - it's no accident. :D

He will talk about how the generalist team at ILM use 3ds max, Houdini and V- ray for StageCraft and post production.

08/04/2022

It's been a while, but here's a blogpost... in which, shockingly, I heap praise on Autodesk....

3dsmax 2023 brings a feature which will make IT and pipeline technical directors cry… but for this time for good reasons! Max can now be run from anywhere… what does this mean… Pr…

26/12/2021

Far better than that wireframe duck fat I had last year!

09/12/2021

Pleased to say this is FINALLY in 3dsmax 2022.3!!!! Only 4 years later!

I'd like to be able to have a viewport which only has geometry in it, and have another viewport which is only helpers, lights and shapes, and then maybe a 3rd viewport which is geo + lights. Currently there is no way to do this. This would make lighting a lot nicer utilising Nitrous, it would ...

22/07/2021

This is what would happen if I ever worked at Autodesk.

15/06/2021

Yay, this bug got fixed finally, not sure which version of max is got sorted in, but previously using MAXScript to set each viewport to a different background image was a real pain. Now in max 2021+ with floating viewports you can set via script like this.. note the
backgroundImageFileName global variable you can set will still mess up and change it for all viewports.

23/12/2020

Max Made Hard 🤦🏻‍♂️

12/11/2020

Wrote this guide on another thread... thought I'd share it...

31/10/2020

Sebastian is a lovely German who not only always has very nicely ironed clothes but also does some rather detailed Nuke tutorials. You should watch this and learn lots of things.

The concept of "Unleash The Node" is to take a special look at one of Nuke's nodes, deconstruct it a little and then dig deep into different ways of using it...