Max Ultra MCP 1.5.1

• Changed: The in-Max controller, transport and owned windows now use embedded Python and Qt; the Node.js MCP server, protocol and MZP entry point are preserved.
• Added: A responsive interface with compact icon-only actions, larger controls above 1250 and at 1800 logical pixels, native window shadows, SVG icons and rounded journal and progress surfaces.
• Added: Seven editable JSON color themes, including the user's 3ds Max colorMan palette, applied immediately across open windows.
• Added: A paged, searchable and exportable full-session journal with colored categories, wide-window wrapping and preserved reading position.
• Added: Persistent 20-100% panel opacity, modal Settings with inactive-window overlays, monitor-constrained status mini-panel and a Skills loading overlay.
• Improved: Familiar AI setup and Skills layouts, inline help with copy feedback, protected built-in skills, navigation and scheduled support messages.
• Added: An in-app Community Skills catalog with verified downloads, explicit installation, publication dates, detail links, download progress and elapsed time.
• Improved: Skills tables support sorting by name, description, author and date, plus context actions for information, opening folders and deleting custom skills.
• Improved: Responsive Skills buttons retain readable help labels, and compact scene-status capsules preserve counts while showing only the scene filename.
• Improved: Manual Setup uses compact fields, consistent spacing, aligned actions and runtime verification colors.
• Fixed: The Python bootstrap waits for confirmed MaxPkg installation before launching an updated package; pending updates retain visible retry status on failure.
• Added: Optional translucent category backgrounds in the journal, enabled by default with a persistent Settings switch.
• Improved: Shared themed dropdowns, rounded text fields, consistent button labels and adaptive journal spacing.
• Added: A dedicated About window with product information, version, author and website links, available above Donate in the main panel.
• Changed: The main refresh action reconnects the bridge before checking AI clients; redundant Reconnect and Stop / Exit buttons were removed.
• Fixed: Resizing during Skills HTML loading no longer duplicates the introductory metadata block.
• Removed: Unmodified obsolete 1.4.7 PNG assets and the C# folder-picker source are removed by a bounded install hook; modified files and durable user data are preserved.

Full Changelog: v1.4.7...v1.5.1

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.7

• Improved: AI Client Setup installs missing Codex and Claude Code CLIs through confirmed official installers, verifies them, and keeps MCP connection setup as a separate action.
• Changed: Desktop apps and setup CLIs are detected separately. Missing desktop apps open their official download pages for manual installation; Antigravity requires no extra CLI. Guidance explains Refresh status and Connect on the same client card.
• Fixed: CLI discovery supports PowerShell wrappers, refreshed user PATH, and standalone Codex locations; failed probes remain distinct from missing components.
• Fixed: Installation progress remains continuous during automatic work and stops and hides on completion, failure, or browser handoff. Cancellation and bounded timeouts preserve honest outcomes.
• Improved: The setup log shows only the current action, with stable local timestamps, automatic scrolling, blue information, green verified success, red errors, and amber warnings. Unrelated client errors no longer color its guidance.

Full Changelog: v1.4.6...v1.4.7

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.6

• Added: Thirteen core layer tools with scene-bound references, hierarchy and property reads, bulk assignment, selection, and state-bound preview/apply for deletion, merging and empty-layer cleanup. Native hierarchy Undo limitations are reported explicitly.
• Fixed: Semantic object producers return INode handles compatible with NodeRef consumers and layer assignment, instead of animation handles.
• Added: Orange Community Skills link between Submit Your Skill and Donate in the Skills window, opening the community ZIP download catalog.
• Fixed: Community Skills uses a left-aligned native text hyperlink without a WinForms background or button styling.

Full Changelog: v1.4.5...v1.4.6

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.5

• Changed: Missing Codex and Claude Code detection identifies the unavailable CLI, explains the command-line tool requirement, and links to each client's official installation instructions with a reminder to refresh status.

Full Changelog: v1.4.4...v1.4.5

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.4

• Fixed: Downloaded updates use native MAXScript-compatible path validation at staging and installation, avoiding the StartsWith callback error. Update-processing errors are reported without stopping the MCP bridge timer.

Full Changelog: v1.4.3...v1.4.4

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.3

• Removed: Donate button from the restore mini-panel; the title now provides a wider drag area.
• Changed: AI Client Setup opens after each startup check that confirms no supported client is configured, even if Setup was dismissed in an earlier run. Closing it still dismisses it for the current run.
• Fixed: AI Client Setup distinguishes missing runtime files, launch failures, timeouts, unsupported versions, and invalid version responses; local probe failures no longer erase saved client registration status.
• Fixed: Runtime checks wait for redirected output to finish and continue to available fallback runtimes after an individual probe timeout. Manual setup includes the checked path and diagnostic reason.
• Changed: AI Client Setup has a third Manual setup tab with instructions, copyable STDIO settings, and runtime diagnostics. Setup shows complete, scrollable client statuses and directs users to manual setup when needed.

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...v1.4.3

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.2

• Fixed: Skills previews use the existing timer for header scrolling and Back-link focus instead of HtmlWindow event subscriptions that can fail in 3ds Max 2027.

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.4.2

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.1

• Fixed: Windows PowerShell discovery checks executable file attributes instead of a trailing-slash directory probe, preserving native system-path selection and rejecting directories named powershell.exe.

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1

Max Ultra MCP 1.4.0

• Added: Skills manager for browsing built-in workflows and importing instruction-only custom skill folders or multiple ZIPs, with independent validation and a persistent success/error report for each import.
• Added: Durable custom-skill storage and discovery adapters for Codex, Claude Code, and Antigravity; deleting a custom skill removes its owned copy and client entries while preserving the original source.
• Added: Offline max_skills_list and max_skill_read tools expose skill instructions, paged references, and image assets without requiring a connected 3ds Max instance.
• Added: Copy Skill Creation Prompt, local creation/import documentation, and a submission guide with explicit copy feedback help turn a successful AI conversation into a reusable skill.
• Improved: Skills previews support reference navigation with Back and scroll restoration, passive themed Markdown and images, readable compact badges, and layouts sized to the display work area.
• Improved: Skills selection responds to rapid changes without showing stale results; built-in/custom categories show counts and retain the selected category between openings.
• Improved: Architectural detailing workflows cover floors, ceilings, openings, joinery, molding, and ornaments, with attributed source terms and synchronized client skill adapters.
• Added: Automatic Antigravity 2.x detection and MCP setup using backed-up, verified settings updates that preserve other servers; repeated setup is idempotent and malformed or concurrently changed settings are rejected.
• Improved: AI Client Setup uses individual Codex, Claude Code, and Antigravity logo buttons with clear availability, progress, configuration, and error statuses; repeated or conflicting installation actions are guarded.
• Fixed: Setup centers each logo/name pair with spacing and a lower vertical position, shows all manual STDIO values above Copy, and adjusts window height without overlapping controls.
• Changed: Manual / Other STDIO clients starts collapsed on every fresh Setup opening; Refresh status, Test prompt, Donate, and manual copying remain available.
• Improved: GitHub release notes include the complete reviewed changelog for the published version.

Full Changelog: v1.3.4...v1.4.0

Max Ultra MCP 1.3.4

Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.3.4