Recap. Trying to get some decent lacquer paints for my airbrush, I had initially planned to get the Mr. Color range of paints from Japan. Apparently, though, it seemed the…

I created this figure for the Tsunacon 2013 convention in the Netherlands of their mascot character. This is the third year I make one for this convention. Trying out some…

Let’s see what we can do now. INode *node = scene.container()->scene()->rootNode()->find(ucstring(“TR_HOF_civil01_gilet”)); nlassert(node); exportObj(“tr_hof_civil01_gilet.obj”, node->getReference(1)->getReference(1)); Plain easy, right?

At this point, you should start to familiarize yourself a bit with the publicly available 3ds Max API documentation. The contents of the file map practically 1:1 with how the…

The most interesting part of this file is, evidently, the Scene. Opening it up in the chunk parser, it begins like follows, and goes on for a few ten thousands…

Now we’ll have a look at the Config stream. It begins like follows, and goes on forever with various integer fields and other binary blobs. (StorageContainer) [15] { 0 0x2090:…

Now that we understand the outer structure of the file, it’s time to look closer to what’s inside. The DllDirectory stream looks like a good starting point. After cleaning up…

The 3ds Max file format, not too much documentation to be found about it. There are some hints here and there about how it’s built up, but there exists no…

Like I did last year, I’ve made an exclusive 3d printed figure for the 2012 edition of Tsunacon (http://www.tsunacon.nl/), a convention in the Netherlands. The figure is again based on…