3ds Max | MCG

MCG MorphToUV

Submitted by vusta on Wed, 2015-10-21 20:06

This MCG will morph your geometry to UV, much like in ZBrush. Please note this is a morpher not an unwrapper. You'll notice in the video that after I applied the mcg, the geo appears faceted. This is the 'ways' of MCGs, it breaks up the verts/normals. I didn't put an mcg Weld in there coz it's a bit slow and crash prone with high res geos. A Welder modifier is also slow. So the best solution I've found is to simply add an Edit Poly on top, select all verts and weld with a very small threshold, say 0.01, then also set your smooth groups here.

MCG MultiSlicerRot

Submitted by vusta on Wed, 2015-05-13 22:31

MultiSlicer to slice your object into....multi slices !!!

Installing the mcg should install compound SliceRotTilt as well but if not I've included it in the zip anyway.

Too tired to put in comments...promise I will when I can but if you've been reading my comments on FB you should be able to understand the warped logic.

MCG Muscle

Submitted by hotknife on Tue, 2017-10-03 12:39

I'm calling this Muscle deform because that's what I set out to use it for but it can deform one mesh with another. Requires a vertex colour modifier underneath this modifier to enable it. The Bool is to determine if the deform happens with Red colour vert or green colour vert's.

MCG Muscle Node

Submitted by hotknife on Tue, 2018-02-20 15:09

This is a dynamic object that connects the open edges of two objects. You can choose which open edges to connect.

MCG Normalise Spline

Submitted by vusta on Mon, 2016-12-05 20:51

(The 'internal' compound you see there in the zip file is for ppl who wants to use this compound in their MCG, ie. you may create your own internal Spline rather than picking an external node)

ver 1.02: exposed Samples parameter. When you have 'drastically' different seg lengths, you'll notice missing divisions at the end of the normalised spline, just crank up the Samples to correct this.

MCG Object Properties

Submitted by vusta on Thu, 2015-06-04 20:47

This modifier lets you access common object properties so you don't have to right-click to go into Obj Properties Dialogue then come back to your object. I actually use the Toggle Mat Colour most during modelling, so now I don't have to jump to the other panel and come back...This of course, is a global functionality and not per object based.

Ver 1.00.01: added Remove Material functionality

Ver 1.00.02: added Wire Xray functionality, this is like F3 but on object level rather than global, only works on Standard Material !!!