Tagged 'Material'

Outliner

756 votes

 The Outliner 2.0 is a fast and easy to use scene management tool. It has a wide range of features, including selecting, hiding, freezing, linking and grouping objects in the "Hierarchy Mode". In the "Layer Mode" you can organize your scene by dragging&dropping objects from one layer to the other. What's more, the Outliner offers support for nested layers, to manage scenes more efficiently. The interface is nimble enough to keep it open constantly.

Project Manager

595 votes
3rd version of Project Manager gains a lot of new features to manage 3D Assets. 
There is most unique from them – the ability to assign custom previews to materials, associate files with materials, and create a gallery of files associated with any type of assets including materials. 
You can also write a description for material and, of course, assign categories to materials.

New Features:
    • Introduces a new caching system for preview images, allowing more assets to be displayed in Listview
    • Optimizes the display of a large number of assets in Listview
    • Adds the ability to specify custom directories for preview search using the "Auto-Assign Preview" tool
    • Adds buttons to the panel on the Asset Tracking tab: "Show/Hide Map in Viewport," "Mass Rename Items," and "Mass Convert Images."
    • Adds the ability to cache assets to the database
    • Introduces a caching system to accelerate asset search
    • Some improvements to filtering textures by directory
    • Rewrites the caching system for use with SQLite database to improve speed and stability
    • Adds options to pause interactive rendering when merging models or assigning material/texture/ies (VRay/Corona/Arnold) [look in the Preferences dialog]
    • Adds support for MariaDB version 10.8
    • Provides the ability to show a map in the viewport for scene-materials
    • Speeds up mass-rename/move operations for assets
Optimizations and Resolutions:
    • Decreases memory usage
    • Provides additional options to optimize the database, including "Optimize," "Remove Missing Directories," and "Remove Missing Directories & Files."
    • Resolves a bug related to drag and drop of textures and materials with Corona 10
    • Addresses issues with database optimization
    • Fixes an issue with colorizing subdirectories
    • Fixes a bug that occurred on some computers during asset relinking
    • Resolves a bug in version 3.21.02 on some computers when the database cache was enabled in SQLite mode
    • Extremely speeds up the conversion of paths to local/network in the database using the tool "Convert Paths in the Database."
    • Fixes an issue with optimizing the database with the option to remove missing files and directories
Fixes:
  • Fixes an issue with exporting models from a scene that occurred on some computers
  • Fixes an issue with exporting models from a scene with Vrscan files
  • Fixes a bug with crashing during interactive rendering of materials
  • Fixes an issue with artifacts during the interactive rendering of materials
  • Fixes a bug with crashing during interactive rendering of Substance Shaders
  • Fixes an issue with creating PBR Material when files have similar names
  • Fixes an issue with storing settings for hidden directories
  • Fixes a memory leak when trying to render unsupported or corrupted FBX files interactively
  • Fixes some issues with interactive rendering of some 3D file formats
  • Fixes an issue with converting some images to greyscale [Convert Images tool]
  • Fixes an issue with converting some images to other formats [Convert Images tool]
  • Fixes minor issues with relinking material libraries
  • Fixes an issue with destroying a layer hierarchy when merging models
  • Fixes an issue with the dialog "Object Place&Paint" in versions 3.19.08-3.20.08
  • Fixes a minor issue with relinking relative paths when merging models and materials
  • Fixes an issue with network relative paths on the Asset Tracking tab
  • Fixes an issue with installation on some systems
  • Fixes a minor issue with the option "Open with associated application."

 

Update History for all versions.

Models 3D Models Browser
Materials Materials Browser
 
Textures Textures Browser
IES IES Photometric Browser
Asset Files Asset Tracking

SolidRocks

569 votes

SolidRocks V2.4 is out !!  Support for V-Ray 6 (hotfix 2) and  MAX 2013-2023 ! 

SolidRocks adjusts and optimise all needed Vray parameters to reach the best rendertime/quality ratio.

Learn Vray progressively, see in realtime changes made by SolidRocks when you change resolution/quality.

SolidRocks includes new tools for both VrayMasters and Beginners:

RappaTools v1.92

558 votes

RappaTools3 and RappaTools2 available... see new website: http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/

See RappaTools3 PlayTime 02 Here  and RappaTools3 PlayTime 03 Here !

V-Ray Material Presets Pro

357 votes

V-Ray Material Presets Pro is a powerful material collection for 3ds Max and V-Ray. It will includes shaders like: Metal, Glass, Leather, Liquid, Ceramics, etc.
SIGERSHADERS V-Ray Material Presets Pro version 4.1.5

MultyConvertor

288 votes

MultyConvertor - allow to convert any materials, lights (objects) of any renders to any materials, lights (objects) and renders!!! It is all in one.

You can simple create *.mct (edit text file in any text editors and change extension) file for new render and facilities that support this type of rendering. See any *.mct in archive

Now you start the script and setup link properties from one render type to other. You can also use expression for translate value to other value or execute any max script expression.

TexTools: Toolbox for the texture artist

237 votes

Documentation: http://www.renderhjs.net/textools/

V-RayMax Converter PRO

168 votes

V-RayMax Converter PRO is the best tool for convert 3d scene (materials, maps, lights, cameras, proxies, modifiers, helpers, render elements, etc.) from various render engines to V-Ray and from V-Ray to Corona Render, and also for converting V-Ray and Corona materials/maps to Standard materials/maps.

V-RayMax Converter PRO converts the source materials with maximum possible preservation of the basic material properties, such as diffuse, specular, opacity, glossiness, roughness, bump, displacement, selfillumination (emission), translucency, reflection, refraction, although it is necessary to understand that certain materials may need adjustments once the conversion process is complete. Also, all the textures that are used for the above parameters were saved. As for the special procedural maps, they are converted only if there is an analogue. Otherwise, procedural maps are baked into textures or removed if the resulting materials can be used without them.

Current version: 4.0032

Supported for conversion:

To V-Ray from:
  • Standard (Default Scanline)
  • Corona Render
  • FStorm Render
  • Octane Render
  • finalRender
  • Arnold
  • Brazil_Advanced (RS v 1.2) material
  • NVIDIA iray (unofficial) material.
From V-Ray to:
  • Standard (Default Scanline) materials/maps
  • Corona Render (v9 or higher)
From Corona (materials/maps) to:
  • Standard (Default Scanline) material/maps

See full list of supported conversions.

Main features:

  • Convert materials, maps, lights, cameras, modifiers, helpers and GI environment from supported renderers to V-Ray and from V-Ray to Corona
  • Convert clouds from CoronaSky to VRaySun and vice versa.
  • Convert Render Elements to V-Ray (currently supported Scanline RE, Corona RE, FStorm RE, Octane RE) and from V-Ray to Corona
  • Convert V-Ray and Corona materials|maps to Standard (Default Scanline) materials|maps
  • Convert proxies (currently supported from Corona, FStorm, Octane) to V-Ray Proxy (static and animated)
  • Convert V-Ray Proxy to Corona Proxy (static and animated)
  • Convert standard Bitmaps to VRayBitmap (VRayHDRI) and vice versa
  • Convert 3ds Max Physical cameras to V-Ray Physical cameras and vice versa
  • Automatic configure ACEScg workflow in V-Ray
  • Batch processing for multiple *.max files
  • Programmatically interact with most converter functions using built-in maxscript methods (API), which allows you to use the converter without UI and in combination with other 3rd-party scripts.
  • ...and more additional tools for fixing and adjusting the scene.

Material Layer Interface MLI

142 votes

3 new versions and reduced prices: MLI Light 2.0, MLI 2.0, MLI Pro 2.0

With the Material Layer Interface (MLI) you can create Material Layers and passes in 3D Studio Max and it’s easy to handle them!

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Just create the layers and pick the objects. Assign materials to the objects and feel free to use different renderer or render settings for every single layer.

Dups Instancer

95 votes

Instance duplicate nodes, materials, texture maps, modifiers, controllers.

Dups Instancer

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