PolySmoother

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Version: 
2.6.3
Date Updated: 
04/15/2023

PolySmoother is a professional tool to efficiently work with Smoothing Groups.

It allows you to visualize and manage the Smoothing Groups in a quick and easy way. You can set Hard and Soft edges, select edges by convexity, copy, paste, modify and optimize Smoothing Groups, as well as convert them from and to UV mapping, among many other features.

Version Requirement: 
3ds Max 2016 - 2024
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PolySmoother v2.6.3 Update Released

What's New

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2024

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PolySmoother v2.6.2 Update Released

What's New

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2023
- Dropped support for 3ds Max 2014-2015

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PolySmoother v2.6.1 Update Released

What's New:

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2022
- Fixed several minor bugs

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PolySmoother v2.6.0 Update Released

What's New:

+ NEW Added Actions for setting Hard/Soft edges and a Hard/Soft edges Toggle
+ NEW Actions are now Activated/Deactivated with the "Keyboard Shortcut Override Toggle" button
+ NEW You can now uninstall the tool from its Help Menu
- Improved startup error handling
- Improved Installer and Uninstaller
- Fixed .NET issue when FIPS is enabled

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PolySmoother v2.5.2 Update Released

What's New

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2021

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PolySmoother v2.5.1 Update Released

What's New:

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2020
- Fixed bug where assigning Material Colors would crash Max 2020

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PolySmoother v2.5.0 Update Released

What's New:

+ NEW Added Support for top modifiers (experimental)
+ NEW Added Support for Vertex Weights
+ NEW Optimize SG when Creating SG from UVWs is now optional
- Improved performance of Optimize Selected Elements for large faces selections. Up to 200 times faster for 20K faces elements (exponential)
- Fixed bug closing PolySmoother while previewing would not release the preview channel
- Fixed bug that could save the toolbar position out of screen size
- Fixed set Edges and Verts Weight lower limit to 0.0001
- Fixed Create UVW Shells from Smoothing Groups where objects with dead verts would produce corrupted UVWs

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Hello liltaso2, You don't

Hello liltaso2,

You don't have to install it every time. Just follow the instructions on this page to customize where you would like PolySmoother to be.

http://www.polytools3d.com/tools/polysmoother/help/02_install.html

The procedure is the same as any other command in 3ds Max.

If you still can't get it working please feel free to drop me an email and I will be glad to assist you.

Thanks,
Jorge

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hey I just bought it cuz I

hey I just bought it cuz I really like the 'Smoothing Group to UV' function.

But it seems like i have to reinstall it every time i wanna use it. Maybe put it on a hotkey?

Taso

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PolySmoother v2.3 Update Released

What's New:

+ NEW Added Support for 3ds Max 2019
+ NEW Optimize Smoothing Groups you can now decide to clear Isolated faces or not
+ NEW Set Hard/Soft Edges you can now decide to clear Isolated faces or not
+ NEW Set Smoothing Groups from UV Shells you can now decide to clear Isolated faces or not
+ NEW Optimize can now work on the selected elements only
+ NEW Previewing Channel can now be forced
+ NEW Support for modifying Edges Weights
+ NEW Support for modifying Edges Crease
+ NEW Colors for single Smoothing Groups can now be customized
- Changed Color Palette has been optimized for 128 colors
- Fixed bug Deleting faces and issuing an undo would throw an exception
- Fixed bug in Set Soft Edges where faces with more than 30 neighbors would fail

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