C_Man

No, this 2nd script still just returns the drive letter. E:\

Hi PolyHertz, I have My documents on my E drive ( the specific path is E:\My Documents ) , and when I ran the script, the following appeared in the popup window E:\ I have Windows 7.Professional, Service Pack 1. Hope this is helpful. C_Man

Thanks Polyhertz for the update. I think I picked up a glitch in that while the temp directory field of the applink rollout now correctly gives the option of changing the directory, when the user selects the directory there is a missing "\" at the end of the path. This (at least in my case) caused the applink to not open the mesh i I was trying to export into 3D Coat. The fix I found was to simply edit the AppLink_3DC_settings.ini file (written by your script) and add the missing backslash to the end of the path. After that the exchange between apps worked perfectly as far as I can tell. Just wanted to pass this along in case it is helpful.

Sorry if I wasn't clear about the ini file -- I was referring only to the one that your script created. I do not know of any created by 3D Coat. Very impressive turnaround with the update btw. Version 1.8d installed without any hiccups. Thanks for your efforts and impressive responsiveness.

Sure. On my computer, the ini file is here: C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Applink_Max3DC\AppLink_3DC_settings.ini Hope it helps.

I can confirm that version 1.8c does not work when 3D coat is installed on a drive other than the C drive. I installed the applink with no problem on a pc with 3d coat installed on the c drive. When I tried to do the same on another windows 7 computer we have that has 3D coat installed on the E drive (since the ssd C drive is getting a bit full), the temp directory path field comes up blank in the app link rollout and the error, "No "+" function for undefined " is displayed for the line that has "tmp Root Exp file = tmp Files Path + "export.txt". Based on the forum messages, I have tried the following without any success: Ran 3ds max as administrator both before and after install Edited the file, Applink_3DC_settings.ini to contain a temp directory set up on the E drive If I right click on the temp directory field of the app link dialog, I get another error to the effect that shell explorer.exe is expecting a string but is getting "undefined".. However, as soon as I created a new Exchange directory on the C drive at C:\Users\[user Name]\Documents\ the app link works. This is irrespective ot the path specified in the .ini file , which still points to the E:\ drive location for the Temp directory. So the installed script apparently expects the Exchange folder to be only on the C:\Drive and doesn't allow/recognize an Exchange folder on another drive irrespective of the path specified in the .ini file. Anyway this worked for me, and I thought I would pass this along in case someone else finds it to be helpful. Thanks for the useful script.