Tagged 'utility'

gizmoControl

Submitted by Martin Breidt on Sun, 2007-07-29 05:41
42 votes

gizmoControl UI screenshot This macroscript (to be found in the "MB Tools" category after executing the .mcr) will allow you to link the transformation of a modifier gizmo to some other scene object. Afterwards, the gizmo will always be fully aligned to that other scene object, which can be freely animated by any kind of controller and linked to any other scene node. In some way this is very similar to World Space Modifiers but it works for any kind of modifier gizmo.

This tool can be very useful for creating complex modifier animations, for example animating a Slice modifier's plane along a path, attaching a UVW Map modfier to some animated helper object, transforming a Displace modifier with some other object, or having an extra node control the- symmety plane of a Symmetry modifier.

rdg::graphPaper

Submitted by rdg on Wed, 2007-02-28 00:50
14 votes

A procedural graph paper texture. The essential part of this material
are both Gradient Ramps (horizontal and vertical) that define tiling
and line management. Colors are defined by the top mix or output map
(depending on material version).

MB Collapse

Submitted by Martin Breidt on Fri, 2006-10-20 20:45
30 votes

Macroscript (without user interface) that will accurately collapse (bake) any transformation (position, rotation, scale) into keyframes (one keyframe per frame for the current animation range). Unlike the built-in tools, this works for any kind of controller as well as for parented objects (which will be unlinked afterwards).

v0.3 update:

controllerCentral

Submitted by Martin Breidt on Fri, 2006-10-20 20:45
35 votes

Creates a modeless floating window that contains all controllers in the scene
for quick access to the controller properties. The user can switch on/off
filters to control what types of controllers will be displayed.

Currently supports wire, expression, script, noise, reactor, list, wave, audio,
spring, motioncapture and limit controllers.

v0.4 update: Converted ActiveX UI element to dotNet, therby making the script 64bit compatible (and breaking compatibility with versions prior to 3ds Max 2008).