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One Button Auto Animate / Rotate Bones For Skinning

Submitted by xcloudx on Thu, 2015-09-10 06:10
1 vote

I got tired of having to animate my bones by hand when I'm skinning a model, so I made this script.

It will add an animation to ALL selected objects, rotating in sequence one at a time.
Now you can skip the animation range creating stage and skip right to skinning. Yay!

Just drag the script in to the viewport, and then you can find it under the "Animation Tools" section in customize user interface.

Use:
Go to your T pose frame. Select everything you want to animate. Click the macro button. Play the animation.

Measurement tape

Submitted by Alaa alnahlawi on Tue, 2015-09-08 21:17
10 votes

This tool will help you visualize distance between two points, it's very handy for people working in architecture. It's not a pure script only Text and tape stretching reflects the distance through a float script controler.

MCG Mimic

Submitted by vusta on Tue, 2015-09-08 19:03
1 vote

This MCG mimics another vertex animated mesh. You can timewarp to slow/speedup/freeze/reverse the original animation. Clones animations can also be staggered.

Ver 1.01.00: converted align logic to AlignMeshXYZ compound.

Ver 1.02.00: added clones offsets and also random variations of delay.

MCG StopMotion

Submitted by vusta on Tue, 2015-09-08 00:35
5 votes

This MCG takes any vertex animated object and turns it into StopMotion/Claymation. You can also use it on non-vertex animated, ie. Transformed object.

Update note: Because it is based on Vertex animated objects, please use Skin and not Link, ie. if you transform a 'bone' object across the screen, then create your hero and Skin it to the bone object, not Link, then put StopMotion on your hero.

 

 

RandomPointsOnMesh compound

Submitted by Swordslayer on Fri, 2015-09-04 16:19
4 votes

Note that the distribution is random, not uniform, i.e. some clustering is to be expected. Face size is taken into account, bigger faces may have multiple points while smaller faces none at all. If you want to get face normals together with the point position, use RandomRaysOnMesh compound instead.

 

Affinity Priority Switch

Submitted by NiK684 on Fri, 2015-09-04 01:23
2 votes

This simple switch can decrease/increase Affinity for 1 thread. Also it changes priority to low/normal.

To install just drag-n-drop into 3dsMax viewport. Then look at the NikScripts category -> Priority switch.

Checked state of button on toolbar means - low priority, thread 0 disabled.

Unchecked state - normal priority and all threads enabled.

MCG SimpleGraphs

Submitted by vusta on Thu, 2015-09-03 19:01
1 vote

Thought this may be useful so I'll share. This reads in a CSV or plain text file, comma delimited (data in 2nd column) and produces various types of graph for it. It does not predict when the next GFC will hit...

I forgot to record this in the video but you can animate the wedges of a pie chart with 'Point Break' too as below pic...

Expert Mode with Command Panel

Submitted by pixamoon on Thu, 2015-09-03 13:58
8 votes

This is just small script - similar to Expert Mode (shortcut "Ctrl+X") but it keeps Command Panel visible

You can used as shortcut or toolbar button

Fit Bounding Box

Submitted by Nik on Thu, 2015-09-03 09:34
6 votes

Minimize volume Bounding Box

Choose Default 3ds Max

Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-09-02 13:02
5 votes

This is simple script to change default 3ds Max - when double click on .max file

I did it because sometimes windows couldn't change it with default "Open with..." and still open in wrong version.

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