Category Archives: Plug-ins & Scripts

charles hollemeersch provides a free plugin to generate ocean waves by using the ‘tessendorf’ method. the plugin allows you to set parameters like wind direction and strength, required detail etc. luckily it can be used in commercial or non …

martin breidt offers a script to overlay information on your rendered image which is smoothly integrated as a render effect into 3dsmax. next to standard information like frame number, file name etc. it also allows you to define an …

another tool i found when browsing the scriptspot site lately: a very simple but effective scene material browser. it shows the scene and all the materials used in it as a tree. thanks to yannick puech giving this away …

scriptspot has always small surprises: lately i found a script to automatically fix the uvw aspects. the script takes existing uvw elements and scales them relatively to their proportions in the parent object. this one will be part of …

wow, there are efforts to create a node based material editor for 3dsmax: check out the cg talk forums. by checking the information i also stumbled over the maxscript framework called helium which i was surprised of since i …

this script comes in handy when you just want to add frame numbers to your animation. really helpful when you need feedback from others so they can point out directly to the frame number. wondering why autodesk still doesn’t …

there’s interesting discussion going on at the cg society forum. as i’m in the phase of evaluating a good character animation tool like puppetshop, cat or automatron. for me it was worth the read as there are some really …

the polyboost guys are fast: just a few days after the release of 3ds max 9 version 2.5 of the beloved polyboost modelling add-on has been updated. now it’s fully compatible with the latest 3ds max release and offerst …

the fluids & dynamics simulation scene will be shaken up by the new release of realflow 4, a standalone application for windows and linux. i normally prefer plug-in solution into the existing 3d package, but the advantages are clear: …