Project Manager
Version:
2.91.05
Date Updated:
07/09/2018 Project Manager - Asset Browser for 3ds Max
- Easy to organize and use 3ds Max models, materials, textures and lights.
- Merging models, materials, bitmaps and IES using drag& drop.
- Store/Create Proxy with materials.
- Interactive rendering previews for materials and IES photometric files.
- Show native previews for 3ds Max files, DWG, SketchUp, BIP motion, HDRI & etc.
- Support to Substance textures
- Search files by tags and file-names.
- Power Asset Tracking Management.
- Support to most used renderers like Vray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Maxwell & etc.
Changes for Project Manager v.2.91.05:
Merging
- Adds an ability to drag textureMaps to Material Editor without converting it to material by holding the SHIFT key
- Now materials and textureMaps which dragged into Slate Material Editor will be place under mouse position.(3ds Max 2014 and above)
- Adds support to Alembic (.ABC) files. Now you can create Alembic Object from ABC files.
- Adds capability to export selected objects to several file-types.
- Fixes an issue with viewport when merge some models.
Asset Tracking
- Display progress bar when Copy and Relink assets
- Speeds up the relinking of asset files approximately in 7 times!
- Fixes a minor issue with relinking background images
- Fixes a bug with crashing the plugin in scenes which contains VRayOSLTex and VRayGLSLTex textureMaps
Rendering preview
- Fixes an issue with using Vray Frame Buffer for rendering thumbnails in Vray Next.
- Fixes a bug with rendering some 3d models.
Interface
- Fixes a minor issue with dragging some directories in the treeView.
- Fixes an issue with copy a Favorites directories with files.
- Fixes an issue with renaming a directory with same name to different case.
- Fixes an issue with dragging some files between directories.
- Fixes an issue when dragging materials/maps between material libraries
- Fixes a bug when sometimes selecting some .max files into listview can slow down the 3ds Max.
- Fixes an issue with generating preview for some .PSD files.
- Fixes an issue with opening file with associated application in Windows 7.
Other
- Simplifying Deployment. New capability for installation plugin and creation the identification files in silent mode.
- Fixes some potential issues with compatibility with other 3ds Max plugins.
- Fixes a potential issue with generating bug-reports.
Update History for all versions.
Models  | Materials  | Textures  |
HDRI  | IES  | Asset Files  |
Quick Start Frequently Asked Questions
Main Features
- Simplifies the addition any types of assets, such as models, materials, textures and IES to the scene
- Cataloging libraries of models, materials, textures and IES
- Sync database on network.
- Full support to all types of Drag& Drop (Cataloging, merging, apply materials & etc.)
- Displays thumbnails for Bitmaps, 3d models, Proxy, IES, Material Libraries and other file-types (include formats HDR, EXR, PSD and other)
- Interactive rendering preview for materials, IES and BVH files [* new]
- Ability to exclude unwanted objects from Merging.
- Automatically fixes paths to Textures for merged models.
- Replacement scene objects by other objects
- Automatic conversion merged models to Proxy (Vray, Corona and etc.)
- Ability to save and restore Proxy objects with materials
- Saving the models and materials with maps
- Save/Restore Materials with modifiers
- Support to Slate Material Editor
- Search files by name, description and tags.
- Ability to add a description and tags to max, ies and image files.
- Display of embedded thumbnails in 3Ds Max, AutoCad, SketchUp and Biped files.
Asset Tracking
- Search for missing assets
- Relink external files
- Collect external files
- Archiving a 3ds Max scene
- Ability to exclude files from collecting by type of file
- Rename the links by mask
- Removing the links from scene
- Selecting the objects by their links to files
- Displays in interactive mode a list of files linked to selected objects
- Place Materials and BitmapTextures into the Material Editor
- Show/Hide bitmap in viewport
- Opening the files into the external application.
- Ability to collect the Asset files via clipboard and by using drag& drop
- Includes the “ Batch Render& Relink ” tool for organize the Asset files into the 3d Models and Materials Libraries in the batch mode
- Support to xRef files.
Misc Features
- Support to almost all known renderers and plug-ins.
- Unostentatious and “Transparent” the demo-version
- Ability to back-up settings before reinstalling 3ds Max or Windows
- Autocheck for updates
- User-Friendly interface
- Usability Default Setting
Additional Info:
Wishlist for future versions.
- Ability to render preview as .png with alpha channel (idea by David Le Cardinal) [ready!]
- Search and Description for 3d models (idea by Claus Mindermann) [ready!]
- Search and Description for materials (idea by Ralf Jaskulki)
- Preservation of materials with modifiers [ready!]
- Custom studio for materials and models [ready!]
- Show materials in tree [ready!]
- Using a single database on a network. [ready!]
- Mass rename the asset links and files on hard drive. (idea by Dmitriy Tereshchuk)
- Use regex and the simple patterns to refine the search files.(idea by Sorvin Sergey) [ready!]
- Search images by color. (idea by Oleg Budeanu)
Note: Please use latest updates for your version of 3ds max
3ds Max Updates & Service Packs
3ds Max Design Updates & Service Packs
Demo-version:
Demo version allows to work only with non-strikeout files.
Version Requirement:
3ds Max 2012 and above
Comments
Project Manager (KStudio) vs Connecter App (Design Connected)
Hey guys,
I'd like to know your opinion about 2 different software.
Have you used Connecter App (Design Connected) or Project Manager (KStudio).
In our Studio we have used Connecter for the last year, but now that they are launching a new Pro version (Connecter Teamwork), I'd like to know if anyone has tried both software and can tell me the differences between them, pros & cons of each software and your favourite.
Thank you,
Victor
Tagging a folder
You can place a folder into a favorite folder or a virtual catalog for organizing your folders.
Tagging the folders is not supported.
Will it be possible to tag a folder?
Will it be possible to tag a folder?
I did remove this ability
I did remove this ability more than two years ago.
You a first who has reminded about it.
Sorry, but i not see any reason for revert it back.
please bring back folder type
in your previous project manager we can easily assign folder for each type of files and was very convenient, but now we have to do one by one and sometimes I do mistake in typing folder or maps were saved in other folder for example. please bring back this feature, It is very handy and make our work very fast.
Project Manager version 2
The version 2 now in development.
Now I can not give a release date.
Version 2.*
Hello,
When will the new version come out?
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Saving the modifiers with material
Thanks - soon i post the update for fix it.
Also note:
The VRayDisplacement modifier must be enabled the checkbox "Use object mtl" for saving with material.
Hello,I' ve tried the demo
Hello,
I' ve tried the demo and i've met with the following issues:
- when i save a material and the object has multiple modifiers, it save only the bottom one
- doesn't saves the vraydisplacement if that is applied to the object
Had anyone else met with these problems? (using max2014)
Thanks!
Project Manager can display embedded thumbnails
The Project Manager can display thumbnails embedded into max file.
Also you can render preview for your scenes with "Batch Render" utility or from selected files in Project Manager.