About

ScriptSpot is a free archive of scripts, plugins, tutorials and MCG tools for 3ds Max, built up by the community since May 2000.

If you use Max for a living, somebody here has probably already solved the tedious part of your day. That's the whole idea, and it hasn't changed in twenty-six years. An artist hits the same wall enough times, writes a script, and shares it so the next person doesn't have to. Some of the tools in this archive were written for 3ds Max R2.5. They still download, and a surprising number of them still run.

The short history

I launched ScriptSpot in May 2000 as a handful of hand-written ASP pages, because I kept losing track of the MAXScripts I'd collected and figured other people had the same problem. In 2007 my wife and I invested in moving the site to Drupal so it could grow past what I could hand-code, and from the end of 2009 it ran on Drupal 6. It stayed there a very long time. In 2026 I rebuilt it from the ground up on a modern platform and carried the entire archive across: every post, every comment, every vote, every file. The full story of the move, and what's coming next, is at What happened, and what's next.

About me

I'm Chris Grant. I got into 3d at fourteen, when my dad's co-worker finished with an old 3ds R2 for DOS license and my dad talked him out of it, dongle and all. I learned on a 486dx 33, modeled my bike, and never really stopped. My first industry job came from a one-paragraph mention of a new animation studio at the end of a local newspaper article: I looked the man up in the white pages, called, and asked if he was hiring. I've worked in 3d ever since, and these days I run ScriptSpot around a day job. My current work lives at christophergrant.com.

This site has never been my job, and over its lifetime it has cost me more than it ever made. For a good number of years that showed. My career moved away from day-to-day scripting, and ScriptSpot got kept online rather than moved forward. I kept paying to keep it up anyway, because twenty-six years of other people's work lives here and letting it go dark was never an option I considered. The rebuild is what making good on that looks like, and the progress log is where you can hold me to it.

Get in touch

The reporting address and the progress log are both on What happened, and what's next.

— Chris Grant