Find objects with animated keys

Forum challenges are always good learning sourse. Recent mini-challenge in CGTalk is about how to find all animated scene nodes, i.e. each node that has at least one animated track with keys.

Terrain Conformer

Terrain Conformer is a script that conforms a terrain surface to a road, video demo on youtube.

Autoweight - Automatic skinning tool

Autoweight is a script by Mirko Haenssgen designed to speed up skinning process (in 3ds Max 2010 and higher).

TopoRelax

TopoRelax is new (commercial) modifier for Max 9 and higher by Marius Silaghi. TR relaxes meshes while preserving their volume unlike the built-in relax modifier which shrinks the mesh.

Batch Loader 1.9

Well, one more update of Batch Loader.
An issue with "Import Name Conflict" dialogue fixed.

Thanks to Richard Missin,
who send me testing files that reproduce the issue.

Le1setreter scripts

Le1setreter release 2 new useful scripted mini tools - selectFaceByMinAngle and AlignObject2slicePlane.

Batch Loader 1.8

Another update of Batch Loader that fill 2 user requests. Suppress additional popup dialogue in import process, plus now Browse for folder dialogue start in recently used path.

Submit jobs to deadline

A tutorial by Klaas Nienhuis posted at ScriptSpot about how to submit jobs to deadline via MaxScript.

Autodesk MeshMixer07 released

Ryan Schmidt announced latest MeshMixer release as Autodesk MeshMixer07. In other words that are 2 news. Second one is that Autodesk acquired MeshMixer. Ah, and MeshMixer is still free (for now).

P.S. - a forum thread about appear at CGTalk.