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Utility for rendering animation and static scenes in 2 Stages from the animated camera.

At 1st Stage is calculated LightCache in Fly-through mode and

Irradiance Map in incremental add to current map mode for the entire scene,

while 2nd Stage is the final rendering.

This approach allows for all frames receive the same high-quality Irradiance map in less time.
For more information see topic Rendering a walk-through animation from Vray tutorial.

Main Features:

• Rendering in two stages for to obtain better results in less time.
• Support for network rendering (BackBurner, Vray Distribute Render, Duma)
• Ability to exclude from the Global Illumination rendering VrayFur, RPC, some lights and Displace.
• Automatic creation of animated camera VrayCam.
• Create subfolders for RenderOutput, RenderElements and irradiance map.
• Automatized naming LightCache, Irradiance map, RenderOutput and RenderElements.

VrayMultiStageRender v2.0.75

• Adds ability to auto-convert on the fly Vrimg files to EXR after each frame rendering (supported with network and local rendering)
  It is possible to convert the files into one EXR file with all channels or Render Elements into the separate EXR files.
  

VrayMultiStageRender v2.0.70

• Adds ability to exclude objects from rendering per Stage
  (Useful for Exclude from rendering Global Illumination VrayFur,Hair&Fur, Proxy and other Objects)
  
  
  

SplineTrace is a MaxScript that can be used to:

- convert a 2D Image into spline shapes, where each spline corresponds to an interior or exterior contour (outline) in the image. Works best on Black/white images but can be used on Colour images by adjusting threshold value.

- create a flat 2D object which corresponds to the "black" areas of the image. Any internal "white" areas are removed from the object.

- quickly turn a plain 2D image into a solid 3D object.

- create a flat 2D shape or 3D Object from an existing spline (not just those created by this script)

ChangeLog:

another script for today :)
this script scans a folder on your PC and creates a menu in 3dsmax's interface with all scripts it finds there (you must specify the path to scan in the script by yourself). all you need to do with your new script is to place it in that folder, and you will be able to access it in 3dsmax interface. no macroscripts support.

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.