Dom’s Base - About interactive 3D content and tech, 3dvia Virtools, maxscript, 3ds max, music and more

Based on a personal need for beeing able to switch camera quickly within Dev 4.0, I finally compiled my interface plugin for it. It needed some file upgrades in regards to the Font management. I haven't tested it at all, so be careful with that and let me know how it works.

Download the zip with DLLs for 3.5 and 4.0

Maybe you want to know how I quickly switch cameras using that plugin? Ok download it, put the DLL in the interface subfolder of your Dev installation. Put the HTML file in the root folder of your Dev installation. Now start Dev and choose "HTML View" from the "Dom's" menu in the main menu bar. Checkout these images with notes in the titles that explain how to go on:

For those that don't know about it: HTMLView embedds a webbrowser (IE) into DEV. It's extended by a new protocol that is intercepted when clicking on links. The protocol includes commands to load or merge CMOs, to activate cams, select nodes by name and some more. The link command to automatically create a webpage with buttons for each camera is CreateHTMLView using the parameter ListCams.

This plugin started as an interface experiment (HTML front ends to authoring apps) and actually became useful for me. Please be careful and don't browse the web with it unless you trust the sites. You use it at your own risk!

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6 Comments »

Thanks very much for the update, I missed it since switching to 4.0

Comment by Patrick Hogenboom — Monday, 19th November, 2007 @ 09:48
Thanks Dom, I use your HTML Browser all the time !!

Comment by chris — Monday, 17th December, 2007 @ 06:05
Hi, If I just use your plugin in Virtools, not in a browser, is it safe? I really need it to clean some unused attributes that CANNOT be deleted by any means… Thanks Ben

Comment by Ben — Friday, 18th January, 2008 @ 04:24
Ben,
the PlugIn is for the authoring environment only. It won't work as plugin for the runtime. When deleting attributes just save prior a backup copy - I once had a case where I was able to delete the XE player plugin attributes … don't know what side effect that has.

Comment by dominique — Friday, 18th January, 2008 @ 08:09
[...] also has an Editor API but it's MFC and not the easiest stuff to use. Btw. I have a couple of free Virtools Editor Plugins for download (don't know if there are any others freely [...]

Pingback by Dom’s Base - About interactive 3D content and tech, 3dvia Virtools, maxscript, 3ds max, music and more — Friday, 25th July, 2008 @ 01:49
These tools are really awesome (Time Scaler and Animation Slider mainly for me). Unfortunately, they don't work on Virtools 4.1 :(. Could you compile them for Virtools 4.1, please, if you find some time. I'm really missing them ! Thanks for advance. PS: sorry for this unusal comment/request but I didn't find the topic on the swapmeet :).

Comment by feranti — Friday, 19th September, 2008 @ 10:49