Project Manager

Project Manager - Asset Browser for 3ds Max

• Easy to organize and use 3ds Max models, materials, textures and lights.
• Merging models, materials, bitmaps and IES using drag& drop.
• Store/Create Proxy with materials.
• Interactive rendering previews for materials and IES photometric files.
• Show native previews for 3ds Max files, GrowFx, Revit, Substance, DWG, SketchUp, BIP motion, HDRI & etc.
• Support to Substance textures
• Search files by tags and file-names.
• Power Asset Tracking Management.
• Support to most used renderers like Vray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Maxwell & etc.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.92.00:

New version of Project Manager adds support to GrowFX - plant modelling system.
Now you can see native embedded thumbnail, create GrowFX objects by dragging the .GFX files into viewport and convert them to Proxy on the fly.

• Adds support to GrowFX: preview embedded thumbnail, drag into viewport, convert to Proxy
• Fixes a bug when V-Ray proxy path is set to undefined
• Fixes a potential bug with saving/restoring MYSQL database
• Fixes an issue with saving to library a material which contains FstormBitmap
• Convert to Vray Proxy now uses optimization for instances. Re-create your V-Ray proxies in case if you have issues with rendering speed or cancellation/ending of renderingis slowly
• Fixes an issue with selecting Vray Proxies on the Asset Files tab by file-name
• Fixes a bug when paste items into the Favorites folder from the system folder
• Fixes some other issues and bugs

Update History for all versions.

Models	Materials	Textures
HDRI	IES	Asset Files

Quick Start Frequently Asked Questions

Main Features

• Simplifies the addition any types of assets, such as models, materials, textures and IES to the scene
• Cataloging libraries of models, materials, textures and IES
• Sync database on network.
• Full support to all types of Drag& Drop (Cataloging, merging, apply materials & etc.)
• Displays thumbnails for Bitmaps, 3d models, Proxy, IES, Material Libraries and other file-types (include formats HDR, EXR, PSD and other)
• Interactive rendering preview for materials, IES and BVH files [* new]
• Ability to exclude unwanted objects from Merging.
• Automatically fixes paths to Textures for merged models.
• Replacement scene objects by other objects
• Automatic conversion merged models to Proxy (Vray, Corona and etc.)
• Ability to save and restore Proxy objects with materials
• Saving the models and materials with maps
• Save/Restore Materials with modifiers
• Support to Slate Material Editor
• Search files by name, description and tags.
• Ability to add a description and tags to max, ies and image files.
• Display of embedded thumbnails in 3Ds Max, GrowFX, Revit, AutoCad, SketchUp and Biped files.

Asset Tracking

• Search for missing assets
• Relink external files
• Collect external files
• Archiving a 3ds Max scene
• Ability to exclude files from collecting by type of file
• Rename the links by mask
• Removing the links from scene
• Selecting the objects by their links to files
• Displays in interactive mode a list of files linked to selected objects
• Place Materials and BitmapTextures into the Material Editor
• Show/Hide bitmap in viewport
• Opening the files into the external application.
• Ability to collect the Asset files via clipboard and by using drag& drop
• Includes the “ Batch Render& Relink ” tool for organize the Asset files into the 3d Models and Materials Libraries in the batch mode
• Support to xRef files.

Misc Features

• Support to almost all known renderers and plug-ins.
• Unostentatious and “Transparent” the demo-version
• Ability to back-up settings before reinstalling 3ds Max or Windows
• Autocheck for updates
• User-Friendly interface
• Usability Default Setting