MOULa 3ds max plugin binaries available

Marcus Wheeler · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:47 pm

Like to send a shout of "thanks" over the airwaves to you guys at Cyan.

Even as a baby-step, this is a step forward and we're glad to see it come to pass. And on the one-month anniversary of MOULagain no less (gunna be a fun weekend down under).

Marein · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:52 pm

Thanks Cyan! I would say this is somewhat more significant than a tiny step

BAD · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 2:10 am **Posts:** 372

I would recommend people don't run out trying to find a version of 3D studio max 7. More than likely it won't be to difficult for a fan good with code to figure out how to make it work with newer versions.

This of course would be after the source code is released.

goofy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:38 pm

It's to bad my Gmax won't work with it.

Raniass'i · **Joined:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 am **Posts:** 192

K I was getting the same error as AgeNotFound. So I tried your suggestion, Chogon.

Chogon wrote:

It is probably looking for some of the other .dlls that it needs. Theoretically, they should be in the main directory of where you installed MOULagain (binkw32.dll, Nx*.dll, OpenAL32.dll and maybe others). So, you can change your path to include that directory or copy them to somewhere in your path.

--Chogon

And Now I am getting a new error message.

Quote:

Application Error
An Error has Occurred and the Application Will Now Close

I tried both changing the path and copying files, with the same results.

Preachr46 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:18 am

I get "module not found" error. Then Max 7 launches normally. If I put the .dll's in it crashes Max! :roll:

Chogon · **Joined:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:13 pm **Posts:** 1071

Raniass'i wrote:

Copied the files in the MOULa folder over to 3DS Max 7 folder. Now I am getting an Application Error, and 3DS Max having to close. Pretty much copying the dll's from MOULa folder to 3DS Max 7 folder just replaced one error with a new error.

Heh. You are mistaking replacing one error with another with progress! I'm sorry you are the guinea pigs ;-)

There is a file in the \3dsmax\plugcfg called PlasmaMAX2.ini
It should look something like this:

Code:

[Menu]
Version=10
[SceneViewer]
Directory=C:\PlasmaTest\
[Export]
X=0
Y=30
Dir=

Make sure that what is in the Directory= is pointing to a real directory.
And don't get too excited about the SceneViewer, it was a bad dream.

Thanks,
Chogon

Raniass'i · **Joined:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 am **Posts:** 192

Only thing in my PlasmaMax2.ini file is

Code:

[Menu]
Version=10 

Chogon · **Joined:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:13 pm **Posts:** 1071

Raniass'i wrote:

Only thing in my PlasmaMax2.ini file is

Code:

[Menu]
Version=10 

Right, change it to what I posted previously.

--Chogon

Sophia · **Joined:** Wed May 17, 2006 11:30 pm **Posts:** 1116

Awesome! GREAT news, that will make some people /dance and /clap

Thanks again Cyan, surprise after surprise... "SOON" shall never mean the same again :lol:

Raniass'i · **Joined:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 am **Posts:** 192

Its working now, thanks.

Raniass'i · **Joined:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 am **Posts:** 192

K I am getting the Application error again. This time its when I click on Age Description Manger in the plugin.

Tahgtahv · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 12:56 am **Posts:** 251

Chogon wrote:

This is just one more small step with a *lot* more to come. I am hoping to find some of the plugin documentation albeit outdated and make that available. And we are working on getting the source for these plugins so people can try to create plugins for other 3D modeling software.

Enjoy,
Chogon

Resident reverse engineer here. The plugin uses many of the same source files as the engine does. This sounds promising.

Tahg

Deledrius · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:32 am

Awesome, thanks Chogon and Cyan!

AdamJohnso · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:32 am

Tahgtahv wrote:

Resident reverse engineer here. The plugin uses many of the same source files as the engine does. This sounds promising.

Tahg

You say this like we never even suspected it.

MOULa 3ds max plugin binaries available

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