How to become an FX Technical Director (MaxScript 3DS Max 2020 Tutorial)

[@technofeeliak]

You had it rough growing up. No one understood your dream, and despite having every reason to give up you held on. You're an inspiration sir.

[@AllanMcKay]

Thank you Malcolm I appreciate the kind words it means a lot. Thank you 🙏

[@MaxFkh]

And here is another great video... You're the best Allan !

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks so much Maxime!!

[@brightgarinson3099]

I don't use Max or know anything about it, but I like you so I try to recreate your effects on blender.

[@AllanMcKay]

Absolutely - there's no reason you can't apply all of this in Blender. I learned to script in Maya in MEL and since then applied it in dozens of packages, platforms and languages. The concept is all you need to know. And as I state in the video - never be too good to Google things - because there is so much information that will pop up to help you with every single thing you're trying to do - once you know what to look for. Let me know how you go!

[@brightgarinson3099]

@@AllanMcKay Thank you for the advice, I'm currently working on a GoT scene at the moment.

[@goricua]

Hi Allan! as always thanks for the great content, something that could be great to automate is the creation of VrayLightSelect passes something like what corona does, based on instancing or name or grouping, and with one click it goes through the lights in the scene and done you have all the passes ready to go and named

[@luissee3990]

Yes. More Maxscript :)

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks Luis, if this is something you want to see more of - let me know I will try to put out more lessons around this. We cover this subject extensively (FX and Scripting) in the FXTD Mentorship but I'm always happy to put out more training around this topic. Because I strongly believe EVERY artist should learn to code at least a little bit. Thanks Luis!

[@yeti4177]

Awesome tutorial....👍

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks so much buddy

[@jonlon4406]

master,I have a question: how to set the value of "Creat New Set" in Level of Detail with maxscirpt? I don`t know how to contrl this button. Thanks a lot !!! it`s very important to me.

[@ExacoMvm]

I wonder if it would be hard to make a script for accurate anisotropy to even out horizontal edges of an object ( so between each horizontal edge is exact same distance ) and then to delete all vertical edges and turn all horizontal ones into rings/torus or basically circle splines. Because manually doing it's nearly impossible or would take weeks, because there's like thousands of these rings and i would need to scale it separately to fit the shape which also probs would not end up perfectly aligned.

[@AllanMcKay]

Sounds like you've got some experimenting to do today Exaco :)

[@InvertLogic]

you are the best!

[@AllanMcKay]

I'm honored thank you 🙏🙏

[@yggrassildigital8483]

❤️ thank you master

[@ronydey2696]

Respected sir ,myself Rony an VFx compositing & CG Animation student.. i also doing BCA and also know the programming like Oops C++, c prog language and currently learning Python prog but ...i just want to know that where should I learn the particular software API like Nuke x , houdini side fx and autodesk maya?? That was my query upon you kindly sir if you suggest me that should be very much helping too me!! To being a technical artist too besides my animation CG & Visuals Fx carieer!!!

[@christianbohm6118]

Let me answer this - do not learn an API "just because". You aren't hired by your knowledge (because nobody can look into your head), but by the stuff you created. So create tools you can show on your reel, what program you do that for is up to you. That said, I would recommend Maya,Nuke or Houdini, as you said. 3DS Max is dying, if not already dead. Maya,Nuke and Houdini are the standard now.