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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,
- Copy the ExocortexCrate's dlu from
build_install\bin
toYOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER\Plugins
folder. - Copy the 3DS Max scripts from
build_install\3DSMax\MaxScripts
toYOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER\scripts
folder. - Copy the dependencies (Alembic' and ilmbase' dlls) in your
YOUR_3DS_MAX_INSTALL_FOLDER
folder.