Project Manager

Project Manager - Asset Browser for 3ds Max

• Best tool for organizing any type of 3D files.
• Simple drag and drop for merging and assigning models, materials, textures, biped, IES lights and more.
• Interactive rendering previews for materials and IES files.
• Show native previews for 3ds Max files, HDRI & etc.
• Search files by tags and file-names.
• Missing external files management.
• Support to most used renderers like Vray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Arnold & etc.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.70.25:

• Now you can save materials to library by dragging them directly from Material Editor**
• Caching the materials thumbnails
• Details View for Materials
• Adds the ability to save sceneMaterials to Material Library using context menu of treeview
• Updates for Unique Asset Tracking System what allows to working with assets which not support the default 3Ds Max Asset Tracking System
• Adds support to RedShift Renderer – merging Proxy, creating IES and RedShift materials
• Adds support to Arnold Renderer – merging Proxy, creating IES and Arnold materials
• Adds the ability to create a fR_IES from IES photometric files (Final Render)
• Adds “.BHV” and “.SKP” files as default formats for 3d files
• Native preview for SketchUp files (.SKP)
• Adds the ability to create Biped from .BHV files
• Adds the ability to adding buttons for custom scripts to toolbar
• Adds the ability to save comments and tags by pressing CTRL+ENTER
• Adds the ability to rendering previews for models using all cameras present in rendered scene
• New option “Fit view to nodes” – to disable/enable fitting view to objects in rendered scene
• New methods and properties for API: PostScriptInfo.FitCameraFov and “BeforeRender” property for PostScriptInfo.BatchMode
• Fixes an issues with rendering previews: now studio scaled to nodes instead previously used method for scaling nodes for fitting to studio
• Fixes a bug when merging objects with hierarchy ( for example animated nodes )
• Fixes an issue for 3Ds Max 2017 with assigning textures to modifiers and objects by dragging to Command panel
• Fixes a minor issues with merging xRef
• Some interface changes and speed improvements
• Fixes an issue with very slow loading material libraries on complex scenes when use a Nitrous Direct3D Display Driver
• Fixes an issue with locking a rendering view after rendering thumbnails for materials using default render-preset

Update History for all versions.

Models	Materials	Textures
HDRI	IES	Asset Files

Quick Start Frequently Asked Questions

Main Features

• Simple adding the models, materials, textures and IES into the scene
• Cataloging libraries of models, materials, textures and IES
• Sync database on network. [*new]
• 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 and IES [*new]
• Ability to exclude from Merging unwanted objects
• Ability to auto-fix Texture paths for merged objects on the fly
• Replacement scene objects by other objects
• Automatic conversion the merging models to the proxy
• Saving the models and materials with maps
• Saving the Proxy with materials
• 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 and AutoCad files.

Asset Tracking

• Search for missing assets
• Relink external files
• Collect external files
• Archiving a 3ds Max scene [*new]
• Ability to exclude files from collecting by type of file
• Rename the links by mask
• Removing the maps 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 drag&drop method
• Include 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