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3dsMax 2021 OSL Advanced User Interface

3ds Max has many cool OSL shaders. It also has some under the hood improvement for OSL shader developers for better user experience.

For details, you can check Help document. Click here.

Here is some highlights.

  • Additional metadata
    widget type “null”
    metadata connectable
    metadata worldunits
  • Row Packing
  • Custom Widgets
    max:ramp0
    max:actionButton
  • Dynamic UI
    help of the “max:actionButton” shown above, a few helper scripts have been introduced that makes shaders dynamic – as in – the shader is actually modifying its own sourcecode!
    Thanks to this. Now 1-of-5 and 1-of-10 has been consolidated to 1-of-N.
  • Fully Custom UI via QT
    allows a custom layout to be provided in the form of a .ui fil
    You can design cool UI with QtDesigner!
    The following images are a few new OSL maps which is using new Qt UI.