Project Manager

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, IES photometric, BVH Motion capture, FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d files.
• Show native previews for 3ds Max files, GrowFx, Revit, Substance, BIP motion, SketchUp, Revit, 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.2.94.50:

• Adds the ability to Retarget Common Root
• Adds the ability to rebuild cached thumbnails for selected items
• Adds the ability to re-link external links on the fly for imported models
• Adds the ability to re-link external links on the fly when exporting models
• Adds texture support for interactively rendered 3D files
• Adds support for additional texture formats for interactively rendered 3D files
• API change: integrates new PmCallbacks struct which allows the use of callback events
• Fixes a bug for assets where the name begins with the symbol '$'
• Fixes a potential bug in Kstudio's Asset Tracking System

Changes for Project Manager v.2.94.12:

Project Manager version 2.94.12 receives a great capability to interactive rendering of FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d files.
Now there is no need to render previews for such files –
when opening a folder with this type of 3D content, previews will be automatically generated for them.
If you need to consider the model in more detail, you can open it in a separate 3D viewport of Project Manager.

• Adds an ability to interactive rendering preview for FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d files
• Adds an ability to preview the FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d models in separate additional 3d-viewport of Project Manager
• Adds an ability to export 3ds Max files to material library files ( menu-item “Export to:” => “Material Library”)
• Adds an ability to set custom thumbnail for materials ( menu-item “Thumbnail” => “Set Custom Thumbnail”)
• Fixes an issue with creating Redshift IES lights
• Fixes an issue with creating Octane IES lights
• Fixes an issue with exporting 3D files to another formats through menu-item “Export to:”
• Fixes an issue with slow placing objects in 3ds Max 2012-2016 using the ‘Object Place&Paint’ tool with “Paint on Nodes” option
• Fixes a minor issue with merging the 3d model by double-click
• Fixes an issue with annoying message of Archvision RPC plugin at start
• Fixes a potential bug with filtering of files
• Fixes an issue with copying files from windows explorer to Manager through clipboard

Project Manager v.2.92.00

This version of Project Manager receives an ability to work with GrowFX - plant modelling system.
Now you can see native embedded thumbnail, create GrowFX objects by dragging the .GFX files into viewport and convert them to Proxy on the fly.

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 photometric, BVH Motion capture, FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d 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, GrowFX, BIP motion, SketchUp, Revit, HDRI & etc.

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