SOME TOOLS
PhysX Painter
Beware of the copies, this is the Original Tool
PhysX Painter is made to very quickly populate your scenes with your assets in a very natural way.
It allows you to create them using a brush,
and automatically place them with Rigid bodies simulation.
Whether you work in architecture, game cinematics, commercials…etc you very often need to add details to your scenes with some assets. Placing them by hand is tedious and takes time to get a natural look.
You also probably tried to do that with some MassFX simulations,
but it takes a lot of time to get the result you want.
Using this plugin will drastically improve your workflow and help you to make more believable scenes in less time.
Features :
- Use any asset you want, your own library or buy them somewhere.
- Percentage per asset.
- Paint and delete multiple assets.
- Paint one by one.
- PhysX simulations.
- Paint & re-Simulate locally.
- Re-Simulate all.
- Prevent collisions even if you don’t use the simulations.
- Save and reload brush presets.
- You can use a specific Gravity, like a directional one or a spherical for example.
- High def / Low def assets easy switching, or replace by specific mesh.
- Assets selection and collapsing options.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax 2013 to 2019.
Licence details :
It’s a node locked licence. (you can only use it on one computer).
You don’t need a license for render, only to build your scenes.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
TopoLogiK
System requirements : 3dsmax 2013 to 2019.
Licence details :
It’s a node locked licence. (you can only use it on one computer). You don’t need a license to open or render the scenes. Email us if you want to buy floating licenses. To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
MeshInsert
System requirements : 3dsmax 2013 to 2019.
Licence details :
It’s a node locked licence. (you can only use it on one computer).
You don’t need a license to open or render the scenes.
Email us for floating licenses before you buy.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
Atom
Atom is a new geometry plugin for 3dsmax.
It creates similar effects as you can see in After Effect’s Plexus.
Atom uses Particle Flow to generate lines,
points and faces between the particles.
So all you do with Pflow can be used by Atom,
any simulation, MassFX particles…etc
The result is refreshed when the particles are updated
so that’s a non-destructive workflow.
You have control over the number of lines, the search distance…etc
All the parameters are animatable.
You can use a multimaterial to shade it.
That’s a geometry so you can also deform it, smooth it…etc.
You can bake complex Atom objects using Alembic
(prefer the free Exocortex Crate plugin) or Xmesh.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
PFlow TM
PFlow trajectory Mesher.
To mesh particle trajecories with growing meshes.
Different mesh choices and growing options.
All you can do with PFlow, you can mesh it’s animation with this tool, and create nice motion graphics effects.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer, but because the animation is keyframe baked you can open the scene and render it on other computers with no limitations).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
UI Toolkit
System requirements : 3dsmax 2013 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
It comes with a Render version to install in all your render nodes.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
VECmap tools
System requirements : 3dsmax 2016 to 2019.
Licence details :
It’s a node locked licence. (you can only use it on one computer).
You don’t need a license to open or render the scenes.
Email us if you want to buy floating licenses.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
Snow Gun Painter
To create Snow exactly where you want, but it could be used for many different things.
Use the BlobMesh or the Frost option (requires a license of Thinkbox Frost).
The tool is more interesting and powerful with Frost, but it still works very well with the BlobMesh option.
Directly paint geometry on selected objects.
Press Ctrl to add geometry to itself.
Press Alt to delete geometry.
Press Shift to draw branches.
You can create multiple Blobs with different meshing options, and pick them when you want to continue to work on it, you can bake it in poly when finished.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2013 to 2019.
– a licence of Thinkbox Frost if you have it (otherwise stick with the BlobMesh mode)
license details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer, but you can open and render the scenes on other computers).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
Radius
The version 2.0 of this Motion graphics tool.
A spherical Gizmo control position, rotation, scale, visibility, modifiers, morphers, and all parameters of the selected objects, you only have to link the parameter you want to animate. You also can use a spline Gizmo and the animation speed is controlled by a falloff curve.
It comes with a Detach Faces tool, and a baking tool.
VIDEO TUTORIALS
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2017.
Licensce details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer, but you can bake the result to open the scene and render it on other computers).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
EchOoo PRO
This tool is inspired from tools you can find in 2D animation softwares,
like the Onion Layers in Flash or the Echo effect in After Effects.
It’s a new max object where you can pick different sources and offset their time animation, but also divide this time offset by the number of source copies you want.
– creating nice animated duplication effects, for motion graphics or simply to check your animation without using trajectories.
– copy N times the source object with an animated time delay.
– you can now offset the transforms of these time copies.
– rotate the copies around an animatable pivot.
– use a spline to place them, slide along that spline.
– create automatically new material ID’s
– detach all faces
– random time offset
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
Bezier Attractor
A little scripted modifier experimentation between two bigger projects.
It can be applied on geometries and splines.
It uses a spline object to attract, repulse or rotate vertices.
You can easily create nice wave deformations, splashes, vortex, and a lot of different organic deformations.
Since it’s a scripted modifier, it’s a bit performance limited, but it works perfectly on low res meshes.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer, but you can still bake the animation results in point cache to use it on other computers).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
FurGuides Painter
Fur Guides Painter is a new tool, which will drastically speed your hair&Fur, Ornatrix and HairFarm workflow.
If like me you are tired to try to brush Hair&Fur using the given brushes, because it just takes too long to have the results your need, this tool is definitely for you.
You will almost never have to use the hair&Fur or ornatrix brushes anymore, and your fur styling will never take more than 10mins or less.
The examples you can see in the begining where really quickly done, using Hair&Fur and the guides painter.The models are free models from Evermotion. And they are just here to show you the natural looking of the fur flow, it’s not about the renderings which was not the point here.
This tool will let you concentrate on the shading and the look of your fur.
Thank you to Paul Smith at busty kelp for the explanations about the autoflow concept.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2013 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer, but you can still use the generated splines and the Hair&Fur on other computers).
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
Combine
This tool is derivated from EchOoo and Multimesher,
I have it since I released these two tools and use it a lot in production, so I think it’s gonna be useful for you.
It’s very helpful to combine multiple animated meshes into one,
without loosing their animations and deformations.
Features :
- pick multiple source objects, it’ll combine them in a new mesh
- you can replace the sources by a replacer object, the replacer will get the transforms of the sources.
- you have 6 Retime functions
- Copy : takes the exact source (or replacer) animation
- Delay : you can Delay the animation
- Playback Graph : like in the point cache you can animate a time value to Retime the Sources Animation, slowdown or speed up…etc
- Position XYZ : Delay animation by axis position.
- Point Distance : Delay animation by a point distance
- Spline Distance : Delay animation by Spline proximity
- A random value which works on top of it.
- Cache tools to easily point cache the result.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax from 2010 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
Free Render version to put on your render nodes.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
OverMorpher World Space
That’s a new 3dsmax plugin for animation.
It gives you all the freedom that even the best rig can’t.
You can sculpt your poses in animation at a specific time,
and your corrective poses are blended on top of your mesh deformations.
It can be applied on top of any mesh deformations like a skin modifier, a point cache, a cloth simulation, an alembic cache…etc
That’s a really cool tool to add cartoony deformations, like smear frames, squash&stretch, change the silhouette, correct a cloth simulation…etc
It works pretty well with Combine to attach your animated meshes together before the pose sculpt process.
Features :
- Sculpting tools.
- You can sculpt the poses outside 3dsmax and get them back in the plugin easily.
- Quick and easy keyframe access.
- Update and extract poses.
I want to say a big thank you to the beta testers :
Will Eades – RealTimeUK
David Gondcaille – Ouirdo
Matias Zadicoff – Mediaramas
Henrique Melo – Ingreme
Fernando Fracaroli – Clan vfx
System requirements :
– 3dsmax 2016 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
It comes with free render version if you don’t want to bake.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
OverMorpher Pose Space
OverMorpher PoseSpace is a 3Dsmax plugin dedicated to Pose Space Deformation.
It is pretty similar to the SkinMorph, Corrective poses driven by your Rig.
Except the poses interpolation is more reliable. The SkinMorph modifier drives the poses depending on the angle between 2 bones.
And because of the nature of rotations in 3d softwares and rotation orders, in some cases, the interpolation doesn’t work as expected.
Mainly on bones which have more than 1 free angle.
This plugin is based on what is called a Radial Basis Function, and in this case it is a bit simplified.
So it doesn’t use angles between poses, but distance between two points, which solves the angle problem, and open new possibilities.
System requirements :
– 3dsmax  2016 to 2019.
License details :
It’s a node locked license. (you can only use it on one computer).
It comes with free render version if you don’t want to bake.
To get your Mac Address, you can run this tool inside 3dsmax.
