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New version of Sweep Profile is released.

Sweep Profile - Plugin for quick and convenient applying profiles to shape with a modifier Sweep.
Contains 37 prepared to using architectural profiles.

New  -  ++ All Assets ++
New - External Bitmaps options - drag and drop external images to Resize or Convert to Tx, Exr or Jpg
New - Support for XRef files - drag and drop XRefs to Library Track Relink to Repath assets in XRef
New - Remove Selected Assets
New - Resize to Nearest Power of 2 (256, 512, 1024, 2048 etc)
New - Set Path dialog
New - Favorite folder list for Auto-Relink dialog (just drag and drop)
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New - SubTree bowser to Show Materials by selected bitmap assets - and drag and drop to Material Editor:

Bitmap Tracking / Resizing... is tool similar to Asset Tracking. But it gives more possibility to work with bitmaps:

- Support for All Assets now
- Sort files by name, image width, height, file size, path, gamma, texture name, status (Found - network, Found -  local, Not found)
- Resize to JPG selected bitmaps to specified size or to Nearest Power of 2
    - can be used to resize and repath selected bitmaps (by size) before sending to external renderfarm,
    - resize bitmaps in large animation sceens to reduce memory ussage,
- Convert... see below
- Change / Rename paths (with paths history and rename path prefix eg. change only server/drive letter)
      * Choose path from history or scene paths
      * Pick new path
      * Rename paths beginng ( drive letter or paths C:\sample\abc\ and rename them to Z:\3d\sample\abc\ )
      * Find and Replace part of paths - supports Regular Extension
- Multi-threaded Auto-Relink with progress dialog
- And More...

The Material Texture Loader is a 3ds Max script designed to quickly load in textures, create a material and apply that to your scene. It works well for a PBR texture workflow, but it can be used for any type of texture that needs to be loaded as part of a material.

Features

Project Manager - Asset Browser for 3ds Max

• Easy to organize and use 3ds Max Models, Materials, Textures and IES Photometric Lights.
• Merge Models, Materials, Bitmaps and IES using Drag& Drop.
• Store/Create Proxy with materials.
• Interactive rendering previews for Materials, IES Photometric, BVH Motion capture, FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d files.
• Show native previews for 3ds Max files, GrowFx, Revit, Substance, BIP motion, SketchUp, Revit, HDRI & etc.
• Support to Substance textures
• Search files by tags and file-names.
• Power Asset Tracking Management.
• Support to most used renderers like V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Maxwell & etc.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.96.00:

• Simplifies a method of adding a new material library:
  Now user can start create a new material library from any place of material treeView.
• Adds an ability to rendering previews using Corona Frame Buffer
• Minor interface changes
• The "Save Selected" now saves the nodes without materials in Slate Material Editor only if the option "Clear Unused Assets" is checked
• Hidden categories remain as hidden when merging models which categories are hidden
• Fixes a potential issue with interactive rendering preview for 3D files
• Fixes some minor issues with API
• Fixes an issue with merging models.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.95.32:

This version of Project Manager focuses on convenience and new features for export selected geometry.

• "Save/Export Selected" - the ability to save selected geometry to different files when selection contains multiple objects or groups.
• "Save/Export Selected" - new option to remove unused assets when save selected geometry to 3ds Max file.
• "Save/Export Selected" - the ability to save without materials in Slate Material Editor now works properly.
• Adds support to create Arnold Proxy in 3ds Max 2020.
• Fixes an issue with duplicate material dialog when merge models as xRef.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.95.20:

• Adds support to 3ds Max 2020.
• A smarter method for setting up the pivot for meshes when exporting to a proxy.
• Some changes for saving a Proxy with material.
• Adds a new API method - MakeProxyFromFile. See the example in the file "AddToForest.ms" in the "presets" directory.
• Fixes an issue with API method "ConvertToProxy".
• Fixes an issue with creating the Final Render Proxy.
• Fixes an issue with creating the RedShift Proxy.
• Fixes some minor issues with renaming items in the listview.
• Fixes some issues with optimization when generating PDF.
• Fixes some minor issues with comparing external files with the same name but different content.
• Fixes some other minor issues.

Update History for all versions.

Models	Materials	Textures
HDRI	IES	Asset Files