Main Plug-In Classes

3DS Max Plug-In SDK

Main Plug-In Classes

See Also: Plug-In Types Overview, Overview of the Principal Classes.

The following is a list of plug-in types and the classes from which they may be derived:

Atmosphere:  Class Atmospheric.

Cameras:  CameraObject, GenCamera.

Construction Grid Objects:  Class ConstObject.

Controllers:  Class Control, Class StdControl.

File Import:  Class SceneImport.

File Export:  Class SceneExport.

Image Filter / Compositor:  Class ImageFilter.

Image Loader / Saver:  Class BitmapIO.

Helper Objects:  Class HelperObject.

Lights:  Class LightObject, GenLight.

Materials:  Class Mtl.

Modifiers:  Class Modifier, Class SimpleMod.

Particle Systems / Effects:  Class SimpleParticle, Class Atmospheric.

Patch Objects  Class PatchObject.

Procedural Objects:  Class GeomObject, Class SimpleObject.

Renderer  Class Renderer.

Spline Shapes:   Class SimpleSpline, Class SplineShape.

Sound Plug-Ins:  Class SoundObj.

Space Warps:  Class WSMObject, Class WSModifier.

Textures:  Class Texmap.

Utility:  Class UtilityObj.