MAX Plugins.de News Archive

Archived Plugin News  –  February 2016
 

Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v0.4.6 are:
- Adds support for helpers and dummies


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v7.2.2.1 are:
- Fixes a bug in job submission that caused semicolons to be replaced with new line characters
- Fixes a couple of Monitor bugs with checkboxes in the Job Timeout section
- The Web Service application now deletes its old log files
- Fixes batch render submission in both local and master Job Modes in the Max submitter
- Fixes merging of nested and missing scene XRefs in the Max submitter
- Improves error and warning messages display in the Max submitter
- Fixes a Max submitter bug that stopped render element names from updating when batch rendering
- Refactored how the Maya submitter collects the output paths for Maya jobs
- The Maya submitter now sets a default Maxwell Export filename if it isn't set to a value
- Adds warnings to the Maya submitter when exporting Maxwell files to ensure the scene name is set
- The Maya submitter now properly orders the Render element folder when submitting a VRay job
- Fixes a bug in the modo plugin that was corrupting scene files when doing path mapping
- The Rhino splash screen is now suppressed during rendering
- Updates the Rhino submitter and plugin to work with Maxwell 3
- Improves Maxwell-specific popup handlers in Rhino
- The integrated Softimage submitter now has the option to specify the number of concurrent tasks
- The Google cloud plugin can now be configured to use Preemptible instances

Deadline is available for Max 2010 to 2016 and costs $185 per node. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Animation

Changes for v2016.00 are:
- The UI has been updated
- You can now follow selected objects on scrub or playback
- Adds ghosting for playback or scrub
- You can now quickly filter key frames based on transform

mScrub Pro is available for Max 2012 to 2016 and costs €10.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v8.6.1 are:
- Fixes a Renderclient bug in the underlaying socket layer that may close already closed sockets
- Fixes a Dispatcher bug in the underlaying socket layer that may close already closed sockets
- Adds an Altus filtering template to the console
- Adds an onCheckChanged function that lets you react to fields activator changes

Muster is available for Max 6 to 2016 and costs $85 per node. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

The Universal Material Converter is an enhanced version of the old Autodesk Material Converter script for converting materials between render engines. It not only converts materials between the different render engines, it also converts textures as much as possible (eg. bitmaps to Corona bitmaps or VRayDirtmap to CoronaAO). Currently supported render engines are: MentalRay, V-Ray, iRay, Corona and Scanline, with support for Maxwell Render and Octane coming soon.

It comes with an installer, an automatic render engine check, can turn duplicate materials into instances, and has an option to bake procedural textures to bitmaps when converting to Standard material, especially useful when exporting for VR engines.

Universal Material Converter is available for Max 2012 to 2016 and costs €79.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v1.47 are:
- Adds new Pivot Node button into main Normal Tools UI and the Normal Tools custom attribute
- Adds Undo to some functions that did not have it
- Adds Pivot Offset settings in the Normal Tools rollout of an Edit Normals modifier
- Updates global Normal Tools UI to save last Normal Selection Apply-To state

Normal Tools is available for Max 9 to 2016 and costs $10.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v0.4.2 are:
- Adds specularOverAlpha as the default for Max


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v1.83 are:
- Fixes a UV bug in Wall Mode
- Adds Material ID stack selection

CorVex is available for Max 2010 to 2016 and costs $10.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v1.3 are:
- Adds linear dimensions for measuring distances between points on one axis only
- Adds a decimal precision setting for the shown measurements

miauu's Live Measure Pro is available for Max 2009 to 2016 and costs €6.


Plugin Update: Modelling / Animation

Changes for v4.2.0.6696 are:
- Moves the grooms directory to a directory central to all users
- The Grooms dialog now shows the current directory path
- The Grooms dialog now has a button to go back to the default directory
- Adds an option to Hair from Mesh Strips to use material ids as output strand groups
- Using strand group 0 in all modifiers now applies the effect to all strands
- Adds a new threshold-based Strand Detail modifier algorithm alongside old uniform resampling
- MAXScript functions no longer display GUI message boxes when not appropriate
- Fixes crashes in Release builds when loading some older scenes
- Fixes sporadic crashing when dragging brushing curve diagram beyond limits
- Fixes the brush direction being reversed in orthographic views
- Fixes hair bending in the wrong direction when MassFX substep values are high
- Updated SDK on help page, it is now more straight-forward to setup and use

Ornatrix is available for Max 2009 to 2016 and costs $499. A demo version is available here.


New Plugin: Utilities

Varo is a standalone application which allows artists to send commands to various software packages including Max, Maya and Nuke. Varo uses the socket/port to send and receive commands, and with the ability to create tabs and filters, makes it easy to organize project files all in one place. Launching commands is as simple as double clicking on a file name within the Varo interface. Included with Varo is SocketMXS, a MAXScript extension that allows you to send commands from Varo to Max.

Varo is available for Max 2015 to 2016 and costs $100. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for Build 18027 are:
- Fixes an incorrect registry entry from ODStart
- Fixes part master data issues when updating article master data

OCTAdesign is available for Max 2014 to 2016 and costs €4,500. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.1.5 are:
- Fixes a slowdown when loading presets, experienced by some users
- Changes type 'General' to 'Generic' (Pro version only)


Plugin Update: Texturing

Changes for v1.0.4 are:
- Updates Material Manager LE 1.1.5 with fix for slow loading of presets

OmniTiles is available for Max 2012 to 2016 and costs €99. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Objects

Changes for v0.5 alpha are:
- Fixes issues with motion blur and physical camera
- Adds VRayGolaemHSL and VRayGolaemSwitch texture nodes


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v6.8-1 are:
- Fixes a Windows issue where wireless network interfaces are ignored when licenses are verified
- Modifications are now allowed on 'done' jobs
- Adds support for Mac OS X 10.11, aka 'El Capitan'

Qube! is available for Max 7 to 2016 and costs $7,500. A demo version is available here.


New Plugin: Utilities

This is a simple plugin which allows you to drag Python scripts into Max, just like you can do with MAXScript scripts.

3ds Max Py Drag'n'Drop is available for Max 2014 to 2016 and costs $5.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v1.042 are:
- A few bug-fixes

Splineland is available for Max 2009 to 2016 and costs €130.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v0.4.1 are:
- Fixes an export problem with object references


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for Build 1951 are:
- Fixes skinning export
- Adds Max 64-bit / Unicode support