blackhart / exocortexcrate

ExocortexCrate for 3DS Max

Exocortex Crate

The professional grade, battle tested and feature filled Alembic suite.
This repository compiles ExocortexCrate for 3DSMax 2018 & 2019 only.

Binary Downloads

See the release page of this repository.

License

This software is open source software. Please consult LICENSE.txt for details.

Requirements

We use automatically generated projects from a canonical set of CMakeList files. Thus to create the project files for your platform you will have to install CMake.

In order to build on Windows platforms, you will require the correct Microsoft C++ for the plugins you require.

External Libraries

To build the plugins you will require the external libraries. They are located in this repository: https://github.com/unit-image/Exocortex-Crate-WindowsDeps

You must clone this repository in the deps folder [if it doesn't exists, create it].

How to build ExocortexCrate ?

To build ExocortexCrate you need to install some dependencies:

• CMake 3.7
• Visual studio 2015
• Exocortex-Crate-WindowsDeps

These dependencies must be in your system environment path, except Exocortex-Crate-WindowsDeps that must be located in the deps folder.

When dependencies are installed, open a VS2015 x64 Native Tools command prompt and type compile.bat. A new folder named build_install will be created with the libraries and includes files.

How to install ExocortexCrate ?

To install ExocortexCrate, You need to download:

• The latest release of ExocortexCrate (the release contains the build_install folder).
• The Exocortex-Crate-WindowsDeps repository.

Then,

1. Copy the ExocortexCrate's dlu from build_install\bin to YOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER\Plugins folder.
2. Copy the 3DS Max scripts from build_install\3DSMax\MaxScripts to YOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER\scripts folder.
3. Copy the dependencies (Alembic' and ilmbase' dlls) in your YOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER folder.