#83 3ds max 2015 plugin issues

[Philip Scadding]

Hi

Continuing from my Github issue post( https://github.com/blurstudio/Py3dsMax/issues/2 ), I thought this might be a better place to put a ticket in. All tests have been done on a clean installation of windows and 3dsmax 2015, with no previous blur python installed.
I have a couple of questions regarding 3ds max 2015 and Py3dsMax.

1 we couldn't get your compiled dlx to launch on start up, and once manually started, we couldn't import Py3dsMax in python. Any ideas what might be happeneing?

2 We compiled our own dlx with the changes mentioned in our github issue. We can't get any threading to work, we've tried using pysides QThread, and python's Queue and Threading modules. An example that works outside of max, doesn't work inside. It causes max to hang indefinitely.

3 It seems to require that the 3ds max python is initialized first, if it using the same python as 3ds max, and if so is there anyway to get it to use our standard python install?

thanks

Phil

[Philip Scadding]

Ok we can get Qthread to work sort of, but its only doing stuff when our main window that spawned the qthread is being updated. This is not the same behavior that we get in 2011, also can't get a qmovie to display on a label either. Same code works fine in 2011.

[Philip Scadding]

Last night, got fed up with the Maxplus stuff and attempted to remove all the parts from the 3ds max installation that look like python.
Once that was done, I placed the blur 2015 compiled dlx into the plugin folder, added all start up scripts and things that come with the normal blur python install, and now it works perfectly. Just like we had working in 2011. Down side is we loose Maxplus and it was quite hacky removing the 3ds max files. But if this proves to be stable that will be fantastic.
I am curious though, if other people have blur python working in 2015 perfectly did they have to go through these steps?
thanks

Phil