Tagged 'workflow'

RappaTools3

Submitted by RappyBMX on Wed, 2011-06-29 22:50
35 votes

RappaTools3 is an advanced toolbox that comes with a great variety of tools for the artist working in 3ds Max. The main focus is to speed up the workflow and to reduce the click count. It offers a wide variety of tools, everything from selection tools to rendering tools. It can help you through the entire process of creating a 3D art piece.
rappatools3 bridge

Rhino Importer

Submitted by mirza on Sat, 2011-06-18 15:34
5 votes

A tool to import and dynamically update models from Rhino into 3dsmax.

NB: This script is now replaced by the Mirza Link manager

Revit importer

Submitted by mirza on Sat, 2011-06-18 15:32
11 votes

A tool to import and dynamically update model from Revit into 3dsmax.

NB: This script is now replaced by the Mirza Link manager

Subdivision Reversion

Submitted by Marius Silaghi on Tue, 2011-04-26 02:55
106 votes

Subdivision Reversion will recreate the subdivision levels of an already subdivided mesh with 100% precision maintaining the UVs.
It's wide variety of subdision algoritms help artist get the right look and feel on their models.

TurboReduce

Submitted by Marius Silaghi on Sun, 2011-04-17 18:49
49 votes

I renamed the script once again, you can find it here http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/subdivision-reversion

TurboReduce will recreate the subdividion levels of an already subdivided mesh.

Batch Render Wizard

Submitted by AdverSoftware on Thu, 2011-02-10 08:31
31 votes

Batch Render Wizard is a Scripted Floating Modeless Dialog that allows the quick setup of Batch Render combinations of Cameras, Scene States and Render Presets. It leverages 3ds Max built-in Batch Render system which allows saving Command Line Batch files, Net Render, and also saves everything in the scene so that other users don't even need this script.
NOW AVAILABLE !

Batch Render Wizard Example

RappaTools

Submitted by RappyBMX on Mon, 2010-12-27 17:36
60 votes

RappaTools is an modeling toolset for 3ds Max (9 Sp1 +), that offers a wide range of tools for creating various types of subobject selections as well as a set of modeling tools which will make any tasks in everyday modeling a lot easier and faster. It also has a lot of other options like 50%/25% Render, Quick Light/Cam select, Toggle maps display in viewport, Random Material/Wirecolor, Make multi material from textures in a folder, and many more...

CamMapMod - Camera Map replacer and updater

Submitted by whynot123 on Fri, 2010-11-12 05:25
38 votes

This is my first script ever, so improvements are to be made.

Doing Camera Mapping ?

Ever wished to replace and update all the Camera Map modifiers you want in one single click ?

Bored of selecting your meshes one by one and then choose your camera again and again ?

The wait is over. Because this tool may save you some great time, which you can then spend to refine you Matte Painting skills !

Project Manager

Submitted by Kstudio on Tue, 2010-09-14 09:37
595 votes
3rd version of Project Manager gains a lot of new features to manage 3D Assets. 
What is most unique to the new features – is the ability to assign custom previews to materials, associate files with materials, and create a gallery of files associated with any type of assets including materials. 
You can also write a description for materials and, of course,  assign categories to materials.
 

Project Manager version 3.35.26

CORE UPDATES AND SUPPORT ENHANCEMENTS:

  • Adds support to 3Ds Max 2025
  • Adds support to search/relink/collect/archive the content of IFL files
  • Adds support to search/relink/collect/archive the content of Vrmat files
  • Adds support to archives larger than 4GB [Archive Asset Files]
  • Speed improvements for navigation

ASSET AND FILE MANAGEMENT:

  • Enhanced File ReLocate Capability
  • Adds Ability to Sort Assets by Asset Type/Extension
  • Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Files from Collecting by Extension
  • Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Files from Renaming by Extension
  • Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Directories from Searching by mask
  • "Duplicate Asset Replacement" Dialog UI Improvements
  • Stores the sorting order for assets on the Explorer tab
  • Adds an ability to disable auto-relink missing assets on merging models and materials (by default auto-relink is disabled)
  • Fixes some bugs with renaming assets/directories on using in the TEAM-MODE
  • Fixes a bug when collecting maps for several materials libraries [Batch Render&Relink]

RENDERING AND THUMBNAILS:

  • Adds an ability to set different width/height for rendering preview thumbnails for models and materials
  • Adds an ability to turn off/on lights from model scenes on rendering preview thumbnails
  • Drops support to rendering preview for IES files (interactive rendering already supports IES)
  • New option to render preview settings - Ignore Fit To Dummy: prioritize the pivot point of the model over its alignment within the Dummy boundary

MATERIAL AND MODEL HANDLING:

  • "Duplicate Asset Replacement" Dialog for duplicated assets on storing models/materials to the library
  • Copy content of IFL files on storing models/materials to the library with assets
  • Adds an ability to use the Mass-Rename tool from the Manage Assets dialog for individual 3ds Max files and material libraries

INTERFACE AND USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Some Interface Improvements and Changes
  • Changes the behavior of Categories list on the status bar
  • Fixes an issue with sorting items by Size and Date in the Categories and Search results
  • Show more accurate information about missing files in the status bar
  • Introduces importing capability from the DesignConnected database [Preferences/Database/Import Database]

BUG FIXES AND MINOR ADJUSTMENTS:

  • Fixes some minor issues with merging models
  • Fixes some issues with reusing merged proxy and models
  • Fixes an issue with creating PBR materials with Arnold renderer
  • Fixes an issue pausing Corona interactive render on merging models or materials
  • Fixes a bug with deleting assets
  • Fixes a bug with converting a scene to VRSCENE
  • Fixes an issue with converting 16-bit TIF to JPG
  • Fixes some minor issues with searching assets
  • Fixes a bug with deleting files
  • Fixes an issue with preview RPC, BVH, and BIP files
  • Fixes an issue with assigning a preview for materials using the Auto-Assign preview tool
  • Fixes some issues with the item's Gallery - add/remove/update preview
  • Fixes an issue with assigning preview for materials with some options using the Auto-Assign preview tool
  • Fixes some issues with working with the docked Slate Material Editor in 3ds Max 2024/2025
  • Fixes some minor issues with interactive rendering of some static and animated FBX files
  • Fixes a bug with copying databases from MySQL to SQLite and back
  • Fixes the issues with the tool "Convert Comments&Tags from 2nd version"
 

 

Update History for all versions.

Models 3D Models Browser
Materials Materials Browser
 
Textures Textures Browser
IES IES Photometric Browser
Asset Files Asset Tracking

ToTex Render To Texture

Submitted by Svennovich on Fri, 2010-05-21 13:52
205 votes

TOTEX v3

Moved to github

The project Totex has been moved to gihub so community development is easier

https://github.com/svenfraeys/totex

New Version 3.0

"ToTex" is a render to texture script that gives you the ability to quickly bake multiple textures to a folder. ToTex will start baking all the selected objects with the chose selections and will save it to the specified folder

New features (3.0):

 

- Stability : Bigest issue with ToTex 2.0 was the stability. The ToTex engine is recreated for stronger stability, focussed on high speed expanding.
- Improved User Interface : More compact and focussed on usability
- Auto-Update functionality : Get directly the new features
- New maps in development : xNormal, instant preview and photoshop connection.

 

New features (2.4):

- new improved UI: much more clear design with thumbs
- Element map now works!

New features (2.3):

- Improved UI: a lot more compact design, better overview and more dynamic system
- Expert Mode: press on the *-button at the top, this will show all the maps of totex, you can easily toggle this on and off

New features (2.2):

- Max Merge: Merge a max file when baking, for embedding complex lightscenes, after the bake ToTex go back to your start state
- Render Preset: Override the renderpresets when baking with ToTex, you can choose between three RPS files that you can override to your own render settings.

New features (2.1):

- Preview : with realtime directX shader (Xoliul shader - http://www.laurenscorijn.com/)
- Light Trace Ambient Occlusion
- Gradient Map
- Mask Map
- For Each Material ID
- Selection Bake : Bake only the selected faces