MaxRealms

MaxRealms is a resource site for free 3ds Max tutorials, models and other staffs.

Discreet 3ds max Tutorials

Discreet 3ds max Tutorials is an section at Designer Today for tutorials which is compatable with all 3ds max versions.

MeshMixer

MeshMixer is an free experimental 3D modeling tool developed by Ryan Schmidt. The goal of MeshMixer is to make it dead easy to compose new 3D models from existing meshes.

Sound interesting, I'll give it a try :)

Water Wall

Ramy Hanna post 2 example methods to simulate water wall.

How to recover settings from a corrupted 3dsmax.ini file

This is an old trick about how to recover settings from a corrupted 3dsmax.ini file. The new info here is the directory location of 3dsmax.ini and old3dsmax.ini files that changed in recent Max versions (9 - 2010). Read official Autodesk tip here.

WireFence

Create easy WireFence shape (Editable Spline).

8 months ago I was working on a scene in which I needed wire fence. I searched the net for a tutorial on the matter and found nothing. Then I searched the net for any 3d model and I was left very disappointed. Only image based fakes or meshes which seem terribly Viewed from near. My idea was to make it via editable splines. They are more flexible and take realy short calculation time in rendering process. To quit is not an option :) so I made the effort and I made it myself. I up my hand-made model in TurboSquid.com (Product ID: 455926) just for test and the results really surprised me - about 36500 downloads for 8 months! Naturally, to do this model manually each time a is quite annoying and time consuming, so to got a time saver I wrote this script. I thought of extend it before publishing it, but this can't happen soon. I use it often and its tested enough :)

As usual script can be found at ScriptSpot:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/wirefence

The Blueprints

Maybe everyone has heard about this site :)
Now I have seen and tutorial section there.

Linking relative objects

This is the forum topic into ScriptSpot.com (relevant to MaxScript) where the question is -- How to link the objects in the group to the objects in the other groups by their numerical suffix, ie for example:

Bus_Controller_01
--> Bus_Collider_01
-->Bus_Graphic_01

Bus_Controller_02
--> Bus_Collider_02
--> Bus_Graphic_02

...and so on.

There is an example code:

-- collect 'em
g1 = $Bus_Controller_* as array
g2 = $Bus_Collider_* as array
g3 = $Bus_Graphic_* as array
-- LINK
for i=1 to g1.count do g2[i].parent = g3[i].parent = g1[i]

For more read the original forum topic.