Advanced Painter
Advanced Painter is a modular brush-based distribution tool derrived from the Nature Painter script. This tool comes with 7 inks:
- Grass: to create grasses; Grass: to create simple grasses
- Hair [new]: used to create simple hair/fur (or as guide hair for Shag:Hair
- Randomizer [new]: a variation of Scatterer used to randomly distribute a selection of objects.
- Stone: to create simple stones and peebles.
- Spaghetti: spaghetties, noodles, wires and other long things maker.
- Scatterer [updated]: a generic but powerful object scattering tool.
- Toothpaste: the fun but not-so-useful toothpaste generator.
Updated to version 1.60 by 3DZver
Here the list of changes and additions:
* the cource code is recompiled and optimized for support of dotNet;
* acceptance in attention of scale of source object which has been
applied to him up to cloning is added (Randomizer and Scatterer);
* the opportunity to set factor in randomness scaling of clone (min % - max %) is added (Randomizer and Scatterer);
* support of use of groups as source objects is added (Randomizer and Scatterer).
New version for download is possible here: AdvPainter v1.6.0(x32/x64) (or file attachment area below)
Installation
- Extract advPainter_1.5.1.mzp
- Start Max. MaxScript>Run Script ... and choose the extraced file. A dialog box will inform you that installation is successful.
- Install Advanced Painter action item (found under 'Painter' category) to your toolbar, main menu bar, or quadmenu. You set up a shortcut key or menu item for Advanced Painter the same way you would configure a regular 3ds interface item. Go to Customize / Customize User Interface, change the category to 'Painter' and assign a shortcut. Click ok. Voila. If you are having difficulty installing Advanced Painter or any other script, try checking out the script installation page, especially the videos demonstrating the process.
NOTE: Advanced Painter 1.5 requires 3ds max 5.1.
Uninstalling Advanced Painter: During setup, the the following files are copied. If you wish to uninstall Advanced Painter just delete them yourself.
[maxroot]\stdplugs\stdscripts\Functions_AdvPainter.ms
[maxroot]\UI\macroscripts\Macro_AdvPainter.mcr
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Grass.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Hair.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Randomizer.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Scatterer.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Spaghetti.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Stone.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Toothpaste.ms
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Example.txt
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\Ink_Template.txt
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\scatterer_i.bmp
[maxroot]\scripts\AdvPainter\scatterer_a.bmp
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| advpainter_1.5.1.zip | 70.31 KB |
| advpainter_1.6.0.zip | 43.22 KB |


Comments
Anyone get the 2013 version installer working?
I just receive the dreaded "--Runtime error: copy error on fileL c:\program files\..."
On max 2013 x64 :/
Nothing changed, just
Nothing changed, just installation procces from max 2013 up [only].... for max 2012 down to max 5, please just download attached link above :cheers
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Problem --Runtime error: Copy error ....
I had the same problem on 3ds 2012.
'--Runtime error: Copy error on file c:\Program Files...'
Finally i solved only running max like an administrator.
I hope is usefull, the solution was so stupid....that becames dificult_:S_!
Problem
I have Runtime error on 3ds max 2009
creat 'ui' under 2013. copy
creat 'ui' under 2013. copy the ducuments of painter in 2012 to it.
ted
How'd you get it to work?
How'd you get it to work?
I just get the dreaded:
--Runtime error: Copy error on file c:\Program Files...
Edit: grr. reply to use posts as a new comment :/
dupe post
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great script. thank you.
works well in max 2013-64.
thank you for your work.
and the convert on is great too.
ted
advanced painter for max 2011
Hi everyone, I downloaded then install advanced painter but it makes an error (I'm using 3ds max 2011), i want to ask if there's a version of it to run under 3ds max 2011, or if there's a special method to install on max 2011
thank you for your reply
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