yay, all the right clickies work.

from a suggestion on the tech-artists.org forum I took a look into the Wing IDE to help get started and its very very nice. its a bit pricey however, so I’m going to poke through a couple different IDE’s after my trial expires and see what all the fuss is about all around.

So! I decided a good thing to do would be to go for a speedier version of my asset browser maxscript, as in maxscript it takes ~20 seconds to parse through a fair sized directory structure, and I had to build my own caching mechanisms and data structures to even speed that up to 5seconds at startup. Another problem was the generation of the dynamic webpage when you change directory views could take up a few seconds each click also. all this to essentially pass a filename to max? Pssh!

Well, I’ve got a start going in python by using a slight modification of the Lazy Evaluation Directory Treeview sample found on the wxPyWiki. combined with the ThumbnailCtrl from Andrea Gavana. And its blazing fast in terms of thumbnail generation from even very large images and directory structures.!

combine those with the fun examples of using the COM classes to talk to max from Adam, and lets see how this turns out!

pyAssetBrowser.py

Not bad for a night.. Now to finish it off and connect it to max.. someday when i get more free time