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Welcome to the Octopus Documentation

Octopus

Info

Please Install these two maxscripts to take full advantage of all the menus:

Customize

Octopus is a power user octal menu system. Octous offers a modern menu system that is always under your fingers. The entire menu system is scriptable and heavily costumizable on UX and on the UI as well.

You can change:

  • shape
  • layout
  • color
  • transparency
  • animation
  • etc...
  • Octopus

  • Octopus

Scripting

The complete menu system is scriptable but you can also use built-in commands.

Octopus

Mouse Wheel menu selector (Top - Mid - Bottom menu)

Let's you bind three different menus under a single hotkey and you can change between them using your mouse wheel.

Gesture based menu buttons / Repeat Last (Octopus Flash)

You can bind parameter changes to horizontal / vertical movement and mouse wheel.

Single Button, multiple commands

You can bind 4 different commands to a single button.

- Left Click
- Right Click
- Left Long Click [SPINNER MODE]
- Right Long Click [SPINNER MODE]

...and much more. In this documentation I will guide you throught the entire working mechanism and if you are not scared about writing a few lines, you can even create your own scripted menus.