PolySmoother
Version:
2.6.4
Date Updated:
05/17/2024 PolySmoother is a professional tool to efficiently work with Smoothing Groups.
It allows you to visualize and manage the Smoothing Groups in a quick and easy way. You can set Hard and Soft edges, select edges by convexity, copy, paste, modify and optimize Smoothing Groups, as well as convert them from and to UV mapping, among many other features.
Version Requirement:
3ds Max 2016 - 2025 - Scripts
- 3D Modeling
- 3d plugin
- 3d tool
- Architecture Tool
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Color Smoothing Groups
- game development
- hard edges
- Manage Smoothing Groups
- maxscript
- Optimize Smoothing Groups
- Preview Edges
- Set Hard Edges
- Set Smooth Edges
- Set Soft Edges
- Smooth Edges
- smooth groups
- smoothing groups
- Smoothing Groups Preview
- Soft Edges
Comments
Windows 11 24H2
Upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 might lead to an issue where our tools don't load automatically. This could be due to a bug in 3ds Max or Windows, which prevents 3ds Max from loading scripts from the user’s startup folder and macroscripts. If you're experiencing this problem, please contact us.
PolySmoother v2.6.4 Update Released
What's New
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2025
PolySmoother v2.6.3 Update Released
What's New
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2024
PolySmoother v2.6.2 Update Released
What's New
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2023
- Dropped support for 3ds Max 2014-2015
PolySmoother v2.6.1 Update Released
What's New:
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2022
- Fixed several minor bugs
PolySmoother v2.6.0 Update Released
What's New:
+ NEW Added Actions for setting Hard/Soft edges and a Hard/Soft edges Toggle
+ NEW Actions are now Activated/Deactivated with the "Keyboard Shortcut Override Toggle" button
+ NEW You can now uninstall the tool from its Help Menu
- Improved startup error handling
- Improved Installer and Uninstaller
- Fixed .NET issue when FIPS is enabled
PolySmoother v2.5.2 Update Released
What's New
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2021
PolySmoother v2.5.1 Update Released
What's New:
+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2020
- Fixed bug where assigning Material Colors would crash Max 2020
PolySmoother v2.5.0 Update Released
What's New:
+ NEW Added Support for top modifiers (experimental)
+ NEW Added Support for Vertex Weights
+ NEW Optimize SG when Creating SG from UVWs is now optional
- Improved performance of Optimize Selected Elements for large faces selections. Up to 200 times faster for 20K faces elements (exponential)
- Fixed bug closing PolySmoother while previewing would not release the preview channel
- Fixed bug that could save the toolbar position out of screen size
- Fixed set Edges and Verts Weight lower limit to 0.0001
- Fixed Create UVW Shells from Smoothing Groups where objects with dead verts would produce corrupted UVWs
Hello liltaso2, You don't
Hello liltaso2,
You don't have to install it every time. Just follow the instructions on this page to customize where you would like PolySmoother to be.
http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/polysmoother/help/02_install.html
The procedure is the same as any other command in 3ds Max.
If you still can't get it working please feel free to drop me an email and I will be glad to assist you.
Thanks,
Jorge