Advanced Painter

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Version: 
1.6.0
Date Updated: 
07/18/2008
Author Name: 
Herman Saksono - update to 1.6.0 by 3DZver

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)

 

Additional Info: 

Installation

  1. Extract advPainter_1.5.1.mzp
  2. Start Max. MaxScript>Run Script ... and choose the extraced file. A dialog box will inform you that installation is successful.
  3. 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

Version Requirement: 
3ds max 5-2009 (32/64)
Video URL: 
AttachmentSize
advpainter_1.5.1.zip70.31 KB
advpainter_1.6.0.zip43.22 KB

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titane357's picture

Strange, I use Max 2009

Strange, I use Max 2009 (French version)....

DomdOmdoM's picture

Hello Titane357 ! .. I'm

Hello Titane357 ! .. I'm sorry, It seems my change on script do not work with Max 8 .. I only used it on Max 2009.. Perhaps I'll try to fix it later! SeeU

titane357's picture

hello everybody ! I'm very

hello everybody !
I'm very disapointed : it is working for every body ?
When I install I get an error (flag_1...), I can paint but in ink rollout I just have "grass".
To use an another ink I must replace the text in grass.ms with an another ink .ms
Very usefull with vrayproxy !!!
Great script anyway !! :-)

DomdOmdoM's picture

Hey Kids !! ..here come my

Hey Kids !!

..here come my modifications on this excellent script :

I just add 3 dimension scale with Min and Max value in Scaterrer and Randomizer.
Lock check box allow you to have an XYZ uniform scale.

Thanks to Herman Saksono and 3DZver !!
See you!

AttachmentSize
AdvPainter_1.6.2.zip 30.11 KB
oane's picture

Waaooo !! .. it's the best

Waaooo !! .. it's the best script I never seen !! ..great job 3DZver and Herman !!

thanks! ;-)

noparlescripto's picture

Thanks to Herman for making

Thanks to Herman for making the script and to 3DZver for the upgrades!
Great tool. You should make it into a commercial plugin and make a million bucks!
Cheers.

Pewi's picture

Praises again goes to

Praises again goes to 3DZver!

Just when I have started to work on Max 2009. You update the script, this time even with new features!
Thank you very much for this 3dZver!

(You forgot to change the About-page. It still says 1.5 for Max 5.1. I also think you should put in "Modified by 3DZver" somewhere on that page.)

Best regards
Jonas

3DZver's picture

Hi All! I modified a little

Hi All!

I modified a little and have improved a script.

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)

amincgi's picture

wooooow

wooooow

soid's picture

Thank you so much 3DZver,

Thank you so much 3DZver, this is amazing. I already gave up the hope for a 64 bit version.

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