Tagged 'viewport'

Best Viewport Shading

20 votes

This script automatically changes the viewport settings to the best possible quality. If you happen to use 3ds Max 2010, you will also notice that some unsupported/hidden features have been activated, like real-time indirect lighting.

Put the file in your startup folder.

v1.1:
Fixed 3ds Max 2009 compatibility

boneStretch

71 votes

This tool will change the color of bones based on their squash/stretch amount, providing the user with feedback if they have gone beyond a desired threshold. It will live update as you move around and animate in the viewport.

ScriptSpotter

201 votes


This is a little tool to get the scripspot rss feed directly in max, displayed on the viewport. It of course only shows max related stuff, updates every 7 minutes and thats about it for descriptions.
have phun

Grab Viewport Plus

56 votes

Grab Viewport Plus

A requested script that add a few options to the standard Max screenshot tool:
   incremental save in given folder and prefix name,
+ forced toggle to Expert mode and maximize Viewport.

Toggle Diffuse

23 votes

With Toggle Diffuse you can turn on and off all scene materials. It supports all Max's (except MentalRays)materials, plus VRay's and ThinkingParticle's. The avandage is that it searches through the materials' and maps' tree to turn on the first map that has an option "Show in Viewport".

Views Rotation + Auto Zoom Extents

7 votes

Assign these scripts to buttons of NumPad. Left=Num4, Right=Num6, Front=Num5, Top=Num8, Bottom=Num2.
Удобно назначить эти скрипты на кнопки NumPad таким образом, что Left=Num4, Right=Num6, Front=Num5, Top=Num8, Bottom=Num2


Now is not necessary to press the Zoom Extents Selected, when switching of view.
Теперь не надо нажимать Zoom Extents Selected когда переключаешь вид.

Camera Image Plane

2 votes

Maya-style image plane.

Installation:
-just copy the script in scripts startup folder and you will find the image plane inside target or free camera rollouts

refPlane

6 votes

showInViewportTextures

23 votes

showInViewportTextures

it is a gui botton to on or off material/textures previews in viewport.

to assign a shortcut: "customize user interface" -> "mainUI" -> "compariello"

* just you must have materialID equal to number of multimaterial list.

alignViewportToFace

6 votes

Aligns the viewport to the selected face. Thanks to Carl-Mikael Lagnecrantz for some code inspiration.

Tutorial:
Select an editable poly object, select a face, run the script. Now you have a new view perpendicular to that face.

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