Bitmap Tracking / Resizing

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Version: 
v1.81.00
Date Updated: 
03/26/2024
Author Name: 
Pixamoon

++ Works with All Assets ++

New: added support for 3ds max 2025
New: added support for new Color space in VRayBitmap (VRay 5.2 and up)
New: faster method to read image size and color depth - especially for large EXR, HDR, TIFF, TX etc
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Bitmap Tracking / Resizing... is tool similar to Asset Tracking. But it gives more possibility to work with bitmaps:

- Support for All Assets
- 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...

- Select objects by selected bitmaps
- Select / show materials by selected bitmaps
- Select duplicated filenames (coming in next version)
- Copy local files to network with auto path replacing (for distributed / network render)
- Copy Selected / All to one path with path replacing or just copy files - collect selected to project forlder or quickly copy+change selected paths to not show your paths structure
- Shows local and network files -> Status -> OK - network,  Found -  local,  Not found ( eg.: easy sort and select all local -> copy selected to network)
- Supports .ifl - sequence image files - resize / convert / copy / path replace
- Supports Mari Tiles and the <UDIM> Tag
- Supports Mudbox Tiles and the <UVTILE> Tag
- Script works with Bitmap Texture, VrayBmpFilter and VrayHDRI, CoronaBitmap, FStormBitmap and all other assets
- Change gamma in selected - works only with jpeg, bmp, gif, tga, tiff in Max 2014 and up. (not in demo)
- Check / Change gamma in VRayHDRI
- Converts to Tiled EXR - it sends comments to img2vrayexr and translate BitmapTexture to VRayHDRI. (not in demo)
- Converts to Tiled TX - it sends comments to maketx and translate BitmapTexture to VRayHDRI. (not in demo)
- Rename Files on HDD - 5 methods:
   - Copy with new name on HDD only
   - Copy with new name on HDD and rename in project paths
   - Rename on HDD only
   - Rename on HDD and in project paths
   - Rename in project paths only
- Convert to JPG
- with settigns dialog (Quailty, Smooth, Linear EXR/HDRI to sRGB JPG)
- Save Cropped as JPG - with settigns dialog (Quailty, Smooth, Linear EXR/HDRI to sRGB JPG)

- External Bitmaps options:
    - possible options: Resize / Convert to Tx / Exr / Jpg (Tx files can be only converted in ths version)
    - how to do:
      1. click top middle button and choose External Bitmaps
      2. drag and drop folder or image files supported by Max (including Tx files)

SubTree bowser to Show Materials by selected bitmap assets - and drag and drop to Material Editor:


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Changelogs:
To download the newest update please visit www.pixamoon.com/chanelogs

v1.81.00 (2024-03-26)
- added support for tyCache .tyc files - to Copy/Collect all sequenced files
- added new columns:
   - Multi files - shows count of multi-files (sequenced .ifl, PointCache, tyCache or tagged files)
   - Multi size - shows total file size of multi-files
- fixed status bar info for selected items
- increased speed of listview multiselection
- fixed installation message in 3ds max 2024+ (selects Toolbar tab and Pixamoon category for easy button creation)

v1.80.00 (2024-02-13)
- fixed problem in Convert to TX - error message: files not supported
- fixed problem in Resize - error message: files not supported
- fixed support for sequenced ifl files
- fixed UI issue - disabling controls below when custom message box popup
- fixed Rename / Copy files dialog to be a child window of main BTR window
- fixed error on start in 'Bitmaps with Gamma' mode

v1.79.00 (2024-01-23)
- Copy / Collect assets:
- collects only filtered / displayed assets
- fixed creating subfolders from UNC paths
- Rename/Copy files:
- added possibility to store 'Rename/Copy mode' in current 3ds max session:
- to set it: Hold Ctrl while choosing option or pressing 'S' button
- added checkbox "Don't ask again" in query box: "Warning - Rename / Move files"
(it will stop asking in current 3ds max session only)
- added check on script start if main window position is saved outside of desktop
- possible if resolution/scaling changed or 2nd screen disconnected
- if outside - it will start in default (center) position
- UI fixes:
- set focus on last focused control when activating window again
- disable main BTR window when any popup window is open (to prevent changing selection on the list behind)
- hide child/popup windows when minimizing 3ds max
- updated deactivation process - added Automatic (online) deactivation
- fixed error on loading BTR - (error occurred in some scenes with OSL maps)
- fixes crashing issue when BTR starts (in 3ds max 2024 + Corona 11)
- fixed installation message window in newer max versions
- fixed error on loading ini settings: Unable to convert undefined to type: String
- fixed error in Resize images option
- fixed values in 'Bit depth' column

v1.78.00
- added support for 3ds max 2023
- fixed bug with editing path in Auto-Relink window

v1.77.00
- added support for VRayBitmap's Color space transfer function in VRay 5.2.0 (additional type 'Auto')
- shows gamma values for VRayHDRI and VRayBitmap (None:1.0, Inverse:Inverse gamma value, sRGB:2.2, From 3ds max:current Auto in Gamma)
- added network files search timeout - checkbutton "Net Timeout"
   - to speed up checking network files status
- modified My Network locations option
   - works only with network paths now (no need to add local drives to My locations)
   - possible to add server names (eg \\DATA) or network location (eg \\DATA\Textures)
   - with this option enabled all other network paths will be skipped during search and shown as "Not found"
- modified Setting window
   - added network timeout option
   - changed "My locations" to "My Network locations"
   - changed to resizable window - to show longer network paths
- added support for RGB Primaries in VRay Bitmap
   - new column RGB Primaries
   - possible to change RGB Primaries
- removed 'Asset type' filter in Bitmaps modes (Bitmaps, Bitmaps with Sizes, Bitmaps with gamma, External bitmaps)
- fixed refreshing list after changing gamma / color space (to refresh other instances too)
- fixed problem with reading date/Time for 'Not found' files
- fixed problem with reading date/time for UDIM files
- fixed duplicated VRayBitmap assets in Bitmaps with Gamma mode
- fixed ProgressBars for 3ds max newer than 2019
- fixes in Auto Relink window:
   - fixed issue with keeping additional search paths from previous search
   - fixed wrong window size on start
   - fixed right buttons location (when on/off right panel)
   - fixed window resize issue in Win7 with standard theme - (resizing with button '>')
- fixed saving window size and position - to not save when minimized or maximized

v1.76.00
- new Overwrite window with map previews and info
- 'Open destination folder' message box has new checkbox "Do not show this again"
  (to change Open destination folder settings - go to Settings > Notification tab)
- keep / restore Color space in VRayBitmap after Rename / Copy filename- new options in asset list:
  - added column header right-click menu - to choose columns
  - added saving columns widths and order
  - added new columns Bit Depth (in Bitmap with Sizes), Date Modified, Date Created 
    (if you don't see them - right-click on header and pick them from menu)
- Auto-Relink window is sizable now (to display long paths)
- fixed bug reading some OSL maps

v1.75.00
- added new method to speed up reading image size and color depth - especially for large EXR, HDR, TIFF, TX etc
- fixed bug showing wrong image sizes in some jpgs
- fixed drag and drop material from "Material by" (it was not working in max 2021)

v1.74.00
- fixed Specify Path fields - events: copy paste text or drag and drop text / folder
- fix to Autorelink (to prevent crashes in large scenes)
- fixed license activation issues
- fixed issue with slow copy / resize / repath assets

v1.73.00
- added Filters by:
   - Asset type
   - File type
   - Bit depth
   - Status
- added support for:
   - RedShift RS_Bitmap
   - Octane RGB_Image
   - Arnold Image
   - OSL Texture
   - VRayOSLTex
   - GlareTextureMap
   - DirectX_9_Shader
 - added Select by duplicated file names
 - added Convert to Tiff (Tx or other images)
 - added Convert to 1-bit Tiff (black and white bitmap for opacity maps
 - to speed up render with lots of vegetations)
 - added Convert to TX in Redshift loaders
 - faster search for Image Size 
 - UI changes:
   - new custom controls (EditText, Spinner, ComboBox)
   - added arrow to show sorted column and sort order
   - changed columns style for darker theme
   - settings: added row height option (in addition to font height)
 - Rename / Copy Files changes: 
   - added exception to not Rename to empty filename or empty extension
   - added check and highlights in red if new files names are the same
 - Show gamma mode
   - changed how gamma is shown and changing for VRayHDRI/VRayBitmap and CoronaBitmap
   - new columns to show bitmap loader location: Slot, Name and Class of parent node
   - added possibility to convert to TX / EXR
 - Select Objects works with most know objects now: VRayProxy, CoronaProxy etc...
 - fixed bug in multithreaded AutoRelink - it was still crashing during long searches
 - fixed checkbox "SubDirs" in Autorelink
 - fixed reading image size and color depth for 32bit TX bitmaps (half and float)
 - fixed auto-search for img2tiledexr.exe - when 'Convert to EXR' starts
 - added auto-search for maketx.exe in inside Arnold tools (max 2018 and up)
 - fixed drag and drop in Select Material by (for max 2021 and up)
 - fixed support for <UDIM> tags in max 2018

Full changelog list can be found at www.pixamoon.com/changelogs

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Known bugs:
Drag and drop material from "Select material by.." dialog does not work in max 2021 

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How to use:
To change Image size - click on middle top mode button and choose "Bimaps with size"
To change gamma - click on middle top mode button and choose  "Bitmaps with gamma" 

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Requirements:
- change gamma works in max 2014 and up
- maketx.exe 32bit: https://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=maketx.exe
 or 64bit for images bigger than 8k
- maketx 64bit: http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?86656-maketx
- maketx 64bit: http://www.nico-rehberg.de/tools.html
- img2vrayexr is part of VRay - It is not part of this script
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Demo version available here:
www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/873911?referral=pixamoon

Full version available on my web:
www.pixamoon.com/product-page/bitmap-tracking-resizing

Full version available also on gumroad:
www.gumroad.com/l/bitmap-tracking-resizing

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All updates till v2.00 will be send automaticaly to your email.

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pixamoon's picture

Re: Bugs

All recent bugs should be fixed in the newest version v1.76.00

Best,

3dwannab's picture

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2020.1 Update

pixamoon's picture

Re: Bug when updated to v1.75.06 - test version

Which version of max do you use with ?

3dwannab's picture

Bug when updated to v1.75.06

After updating and opening this message appears in the listener.

Pixamoon - Bitmap Tracking / Resizing - v1.75.06   OK
-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: C:\Users\ste\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2020 - 64bit\ENU\scripts\Pixamoon\pxm-BitmapTracking-Resizing.mse; position: 1069942; line: 79
-- MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception:
-- No ""findItem"" function for
flavio3d2009's picture

Thanks !

Very good software, always speeds up the terrible map search, thanks pixamon!

flavio3d2009's picture

THanks !

THANKS ! SHOW !

flavio3d2009's picture

Excellent script

Excellent script helped me a lot, wonderful before I suffered a lot with 3d studio max map paths, after that my productivity increased a lot.

THANKS ! PIXAMOON

flash_michel's picture

Best Script Ever

Highly recommended !

dobromir's picture

Highly recommended !

Super useful and well done script. One of the few really good one.
Well spent money and Pixamoon support is on the same level - just great.
Rest scripts are also amazing!
Don't waist more time and just buy it - it is the best.

vizzarto's picture

Very useful.

Great plugin, use it a lot at my works.

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