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Maxscript now trendy in 2009

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Fair enough, 3DStudio Max 2009 has been out for a little while, but today was the first time that I’ve opened a little MaxScript in order to do some scripting. Imagine my surprise when I discover that somebody at Autodesk has actually invested some time in making the MaxScript IDE whizzy!

Bless that programmer! For feast your eyes at what he has done:

  1. Handy tab bar for handling multiple documents. Woo!
  2. Pointless grey vertical line to show you where your tab indents are. Wow!
  3. Syntax highlighting that actually works without you having to refresh all the time. Whee!
  4. A status bar with stuff you probably never need to worry about on it. Gosh!
  5. Those collapsable between-the-bracey buttons that you have in Visual Studio to make really long code, shorter. Neat!
  6. Line numbers to make you feel a bit more like a programmer. Yay!

So there we have it! A comprehensive list of all the reasons why you should upgrade to Max2009 immediately!*

*note: it’s entirely possible that some of these features were in Max2008.

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