materials

Modifier Modifier Zorb

Submitted by Jordan Walsh on Mon, 2007-08-13 23:15

v2.7.03. Dosen't save size and position if closed when minimized. v2.7.02. Added Maxwell material support

v2.7.01: A few UI bug fixes so the window will open the correct size and have valid settings on the first open

v2.7.00: Added support from Array Parameters like material lists in the Multi-Sub and fR Layer material and their associated parameters. Maps in the standard material show up as "maps - Texture Map Array". Unfortunately these are only accessible by number not by map names.

Edit ALL modifiers, ALL objects, ALL Materials, All Controllers, ALL Shadow types and ALL atmospherics/Render Effects. Work in max from a "Class-centric" way rather than a per object way. Edit thousands of object's perameters, randomize thousands of seeds, enable thousands of modifiers and more with a few clicks!

General Features (applies to all modifiers, controllers, materails, shadows, atmos and render effects):

MASS EDIT: Mass edit one property on all nodes at once, You can specify an absolute value, a relative value or apply an absolute value to modify

MASS RANDOMIZE: Randomize one property on all nodes at once

SELECT/DELETE BY CLASS: Select all objects with a meshsmooth, or all spheres or all objects with a path constraint etc

FULL INSTANCE/REFRENCE TOOLS: Make all objects/modifiers of a class or selection instances. Make Base object refrences. replace base objects with another obj (eg make all selected boxes an instance of a vrax proxie.) Available for Modifiers and Base objects only ATM.

LOAD/SAVE PRESETS: Load and save presets in xml format for modifiers, objects, etc.

Specific Features (Can be done to All or selected):

Modifiers: Enable, Disable, Enable in viewport, Disable in viewport.

PointCache Modifiers: Set ranges, Set path, Flush path, Reload, Record.

FumeFX: Simulate, Load settings

Lights: Turn all, selected, selected classes on or off. Multiply all light vlaues.

Xref Object: Merge object

Materials: Show/Hide In Viewport:  Shows the material in the viewport. Doesnt work with texture maps yet.

Spring Controller: Modifyspring controller settings (Needis its own section as springs are controlled differently with maxscript.

Merge Xref Controller:  Merges All/Selected controllers

SMES - Super Material Editor Switcher

Submitted by Marco Brunetta on Thu, 2010-01-28 15:20

 

Having a way to compensate for the (stupid) 24 material limit in 3D Studio is always a big request, so here's a script to do just that.

 

ML2ME (Material Library To Material Editor)

Submitted by Anubis on Fri, 2010-01-29 09:18

Quick load Material Libraries to the Material Editor.
Quick code just from scratch as well.
Generally useful for all people that found 24 ME slots for not enough.

ML2EM

Unwrap UVW EditAutoON v1.1

Submitted by Nik on Wed, 2013-03-27 08:47

Now is no need to take care to disable IgnoreBackFaceCull.
And automatically enters to UV Editor.
It's just a modifier Unwrap UVW with the settings

1) Assigns unwrap UVW
2) Disables IgnoreBackFaceCull
3) Entry in the UV Editor
4) Set subobjectLevel = vertices

Теперь не нужно беспокоиться об отключении IgnoreBackFaceCull.
И автоматический вход в UV-редактор.
Это просто модификатор Unwrap UVW с настройками

1) Назначается unwrap UVW
2) Отключается IgnoreBackFaceCull
3) Входит в UV Editor
4) Устанавливается режим подобъектов = вершины

Rhino Importer

Submitted by mirza on Sat, 2011-06-18 15:34

A tool to import and update model in 3dsmax from other softs.
This tool is available for Revit, Archicad, Sketchup and Rhino.

From all of this softs you get in 3dsMax geometries based on the materials.
You get 1 mesh per material. Instead of various results.
(for ex. instead of 1 mesh per Revit construction elements from Revit if you use standard import, you get here 1 mesh per Revit material)
Also there is a problem of scale with standard FBX import that makes it impossible to have correct UVWMaps. This is fixed here.

as you update the model :

Attach Mesh by Material

Submitted by Anubis on Fri, 2009-07-24 07:02

Easy way to make single mesh from array of objects with the same material.

Autodesk Material Converter

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-05-09 19:42

The Autodesk Material Converter is a commercial script for all 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design users starting from release 2011 and up who need optimized materials for mental ray, V-Ray or VR applications. With one click all Autodesk Material Library materials are converted into Arch & Design or V-Ray materials. Conversion to Standard materials takes only two clicks

The major adavantage will be an increase in rendering speed (on average 35%) plus it will give you the flexibility you need for your material fine tuning. and of course you don't want to manually convert materials which are coming in from AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor into 3ds Max (Design)

Most VR applications need Standard materials to work with. The conversion to Standard works from Arch & Design or Vray materials

In addition to material conversion the script checks if there are double materials inside the scene. If they are there, they will be changed into instances, keeping the number of materials as low as can be.

New features in v2.5!

  • conversion from Arch&Design to V-Ray and back...it's there!
  • conversion of all Autodesk maps
  • conversion of some V-Ray specific maps or MentalRay specific maps

Render Holder Zorb

Submitted by Jordan Walsh on Thu, 2012-05-24 22:37

Render Holder Zorb is a max helper that is designed to help you manage, share and build render setting, render elements, material assignments and RPM passes. The main use for this is to us one or mutiple Render Holder with an asset file to store per pass render settings and materials.

You can store and restore the current Renderer, Render Elemants and object materials. Also there is a suit of RPM tools to help build and manage passes based on the settings stored on the Render Holder.  Including an object list to create the visability set with.

to install just extract to the 3dsmax root, or put the .ms file in scripts/startup or the plugins folder

For more help, hover your mouse over a button or checkbox in 3dsMax

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