Setting up Ultra Edit as your Maxscript Editor

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This document is meant to get a person RAPIDLY set up to use Ultra Edit as a maxscript editor. This is made possible by a bridge created by Simon Feltman at Rezn8 studios. This bridge enables any third party editor to call internal Max functions. In our case, we will set up our text editor to call 3 internal Max functions, Evaluate, Open, and Encrypt. Evaluate is the most important call and allows you to run your scripts inside max but from an outside source. 'Open' is a call that I use to open the presently active file in Max: Say I wanted to evaluate a script inside of Max so I could get listener feedback, or debugging info. Encrypt is just an example of any other miscellaneous function that can be called on an active File in a third party editor.

Prerequisite:

You will first need the syntax file: It can be downloaded here.

You must first have the Maxscript bridge program (mxscom.exe). This consists of simply placing the mxscom.exe file in the root folder of Ultra Edit. You must also have followed the other instructions that came with mxscom. Download the extension from rezn8 for details.

Getting started:
  1. Save the syntax file called word.txt to your root ultra edit folder. Overwrite the old one there. Note, this file also contains syntax definitions for a score of other programming languages such as C++, C, HTML, Pearl, VB etc... I have added Maxscript as the last language syntax file in the document.
  2. Save the mxscom.exe to your root ultra edit folder. You must first have followed the installation instructions that came with mxscom. (See the Rezn8 readme that came with that program)
  3. Start ultra edit and select the Advanced > Configuration... menu
  4. Select the syntax highlighting tab. Then select Maxscript under the Language drop down list. In the color group drop down list, assign colors of your choosing.

 View the attached PDF below for the full tutorial

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Admin's picture

Here's a link to the file

Here's a link to the file you're looking for - however, it appears it looks like it'll take a bit of work to get going for new versions of Max. It looks like the windows .reg files need to be customized per version of Max - might be as simple as changing out the version numbers / path but I'm not sure. Report back if you get it to work please.

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/plugins/mxscom

Christopher Grant
Admin, ScriptSpot.com

lulu's picture

Link is down. Are there any

Link is down. Are there any other sources for the mxscom.exe file?

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