Quad Chamfer

110 votes
Version: 
1.55
Date Updated: 
06/22/2011

Quad Chamfer is a 3Ds Max script that produce all quad chamfers, unlike the normal 3ds Max chamfer which produces a lot of triangles.

Here are some of the benefits you get:

•You get better results if you use Quad Chamfer in conjunction with turbosmooth

•No more unwanted pinching

•Great topology

•And many more other benefits over the normal chamfer

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Marius Silaghi's picture

Hi ObiOne, The updates are

Hi ObiOne,

The updates are free for the script, but if I convert it to a c++ plugin there will a upgrade fee.

ObiOne's picture

Update price ?

Great job, but if we buy one version, must we pay again 20€ for each new update?

Marius Silaghi's picture

Quad Chamfer modifier

Hi Rascal,
Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm currently making it as a modifier.

I have a wip thread over at Polycout.

rascal's picture

Hey obliviboy,this is a very

Hey obliviboy,

this is a very nice script you have here but it would be much better to have it as a modifier.

Since you never tried edgechex, there are 2 mayor benefits it has.

- it lets you do your chamfer edges exactly where you have your smoothing groups setup which is an indispensable feature for the highpoly creation process.
- you can make changes on your base mesh on the fly whenever you feel like without having the final chamfer put into your geometry! All it takes is to switch the modifier on and off.

With these features it would be a bomb.

Cheers, rascal

coren's picture

If I put your macro in a quad

If I put your macro in a quad menu it's always visible, I've modified it taking some code from standard max chamfer:

 

(   
    On IsEnabled Return Filters.Is_EPolySpecifyLevel #{3,4}
    On IsVisible Return Filters.Is_EPolySpecifyLevel #{3,4}
   
    on execute do
    (
        scriptFile = (GetDir #scripts) + "\\QuadChamfer_1_52.mse"
        if (doesFileExist scriptFile) then
            fileIn scriptFile
        else
            messageBox "Unable to locate the script." title:"ERROR!!!"       
    )
)

 

coren's picture

Great update! Found a little

Great update!

Found a little bug: if I select some edges, lauch quadchamfer, set preview to semi-realtime, change the edge seletion, it always chamfer the initial selection.
To change the chamfered edges I need to turn off the preview, change edge selection, turn on the preview.

Do you plan to support also edit poly modifiers or only edit poly objects?

thanks

Marius Silaghi's picture

Quad Chamfer 1.55 released

Made it A LOT FASTER!!!

Marius Silaghi's picture

shopkeeper there will be no

shopkeeper there will be no modifier support for now
I haven't tried EdgeChEx but I only heard bad things about it.

My customers never complained about unsmooth chamfers with my Quad Chamfer. I can say that my script delivers what it promises.

There will be no demo version but if you buy it and you are not satisfied with it you can ask for you money back.

shopkeeper's picture

Modifier Support?

Any luck with getting this to work as a modifier?

I tried the alternative version of this script which does have modifier support but the quad chamfering was kind of suspect. Lots of unusual distortions in the rounding. How does the chamfering in your script compare? Will you be releasing a demo version so we can also try it before investing?

Marius Silaghi's picture

pixela the updates are

pixela the updates are free

kolts yes it works on open edges.

shopkeeper it would create the same topology on edges of an interior.

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