writing binary files with maxscript

recently i've written a bunch of maxscripts to export test data from 3dsmax for various things. doing a c++ exporter would be waaay overkill when i just need a quick spline or mesh. thankfully writing binary data from max is trivial.

maxscript:

f = fopen filename "wb"

count = numKnots $ 1

writeLong f count

for i = 1 to count do (

    p = getKnotPoint $ 1 i

    writeFloat f p.x

    writeFloat f p.y

    writeFloat f p.z

)

fclose f

c++:

dword count;

FILE * f = fopen(filename, "rb");

fread(&count, sizeof(count), 1, f);

float3 * knots = alloc(sizeof(float3) * count);

fread(knots, sizeof(float3) * count, 1, f);

fclose(f);

thanks again maxscript! :)