3ds Max | Scripts

The result of two days of experiments around MouseTools.

You can use it to paint and distribute objects (copy or instances) on the grid or on surfaces. With Random controls, collisions detection, attachment surface...
You can paint all the max objects (geometries, helpers, proxies...)

I was using 3ds Max 2013 and I realized that you cannot setup State Sets to send all StateSet to Backburner automatically, like in 3ds Max 2012 (with button "Net Render" at Render Setup), you must activate each StateSet by hand and send to Backburner. stupid, right?

It’s a very basic script but works perfectly. This script load all StateSets into a listbox (except Objects StateSet). After you click at "Render All State Sets", it will do a loop inside StateSets to activate each StateSet and open NetRender Dialog.

In previous versions of 3ds Max the Isolate Selection was implemented using MAXScript.

In 3ds Max 2013, the functionality was reimplemented as an integral part of the User Interface.

Due to this update the Isolate mode is now a toggle. This changes the legacy ability to isolate selected objects that are already isolated like what was possible in 3ds Max 2012 and previous versions.

This script restores the legacy functionality when assigned to a keyboard shortcut and was created as a functional example of the code.

Kelly Michels
kelly.michels@autodesk.com
Senior 3ds Max QA

Converts subobjects by shortcuts.

Indispensable tool for work in the Expert mode.

Конвертирует подобъекты по горячим клавишам.

Незаменимый инструмент для работы в Expert mode.

A set of tools to aid in the daily VRay work.

Updated for VRay 1.5 SP2.

The installer from V. 1.4ss - SP2 onward now has an option to automatically add the scripts to a ctrl+shift+alt quadmenu.
Notice it should append the scripts to whatever is already in the quadmenu (nothing, by default).
Please report any odd behavior, or undesired effect: it's a first attempt at the code, and may contain issues.

Anything to Physcam v.1.4: converts max standard cameras and viewports to VRay Physical Cameras, along with FoV animation.V.1.4 corrects a bug with camera views conversion, copies across clipping planes' ranges , and allows for individual camera naming at creation, rather than later by hand.

Matrix-Weighted Exposimeter V. 1.21 : very similar in principle to that of dSLR, it allows for different weighting of each slice/square in which the image is divided, as well as allowing a different range of pixel brightnesses to be chosen for the exposure (akin to real world lens filters).
Entirely customisable for behaviour.Now with auto-white balance and preset manager!
From V. 1.16 it supports exposure / White Balance animation through the script.
Please note this is not meant to be a frame by frame tool: doing so will result in flickering (like for standard dSLRs) and will likey lead to max crashes due to maxscript memory heap overload.
Keep previews small, Nth frame at around 1 second, and go in and refine by hand activating "Auto Key" from the max interface and exposing the problematic areas.
The Sample Rate calculator, new with 1.19, is an early attempt at DMC AA optimisation.
It will render a sample pass with whatever DMC AA (ONLY!) settings you have, analise the sample rate, and guestimate a new threshold value (AA noise threshold only) so that the BIAS setting may be met (+- 2.5%).
The BIAS indicates the pixel brightness average in the sample pass (where ~0 is min sampling, and ~1 is max sampling).
V.1.21 fixes the inconsistencies in vray versions when using QMC (now brute force) as a method for exposure GI.

An arm rigging system with auto-clavicle and auto twist solutions.

Bake various properties of objects (ie. procedurally animated object into animated meshes - procedural animation into simple keys - etc).

Wall Worm Model Tools consist of a MaxScript utility to quicken the pace of sending models from 3ds Max to the Valve Source model compiler. It automates some of the steps of preparing your model and lets you export SMDs and textures in a simple manner.

Key Features

• Automatically generates a QC text file for your model
• Can automatically generate convex collision hulls for your model

FACEENGINE TUTORIAL

To run the facial script :

1- Un-rar the "faceengine.rar" into your 3ds max programm folder.
for example ,

c:\program files\3ds max\faceengine

2-in 3ds max environment , run the "vertex recorder" script, if you have problems like " runtime error ..." , you need to run "3ds max.exe" as administrator , and re-run this script

3-With first button , select your 3d head model

4-With second button , select the vertices one by one according
to the visual quide on script window ( red dot on the quide model ) ,