Procedural Snow

A new step by step tutorial by Cristian Pop (at CGTuts+) on creating snow cap over object using Particle Flow and Blob Mesh. It's probably very popular technique but worth to read it though.

MaxScriptManager

MaxScriptManager is a script by Norman Schaar that help to manage your installed scripts. A lot of features included inside... check your self. The big studios used repositores (data bases)... glad to see someone take care to work on such script for free :)

MXS Browser

MXS Browser is a personal script, an utility menu that I use all the time. I organize my most often used scripts into folders in Max/Scripts directory and this simple menu is all I need to find and run or edit them quickly.

Quad Chamfer

Quad Chamfer is a commercial script for 3ds Max 2010/12 by Marius Silaghi that offer better chamfer method than Max built-in one.

3ds Max SDK Annual Survey

3ds Max SDK Annual Survey and Highlights from Last Year's Results posted at Christopher Diggins blog. If you're Max SDK developer don't miss that survey ;-)

Grab Viewport with transparent background

Max's Grab Viewport is just a screen capture tool, so we can't do this directly. However we can post-edit the image (in Photoshop for ex.) and remove the background, but some automation of this process is welcome and also recently requested in CGTalk forum.

The first attempt about was Kostadin Kotev's script (here), follows by Leslie Van den Broeck (here). Leslie just extent the first script with more features (additional renderer passes), nice but the base solution is the same. This can be optimized to run about twice more faster, but the base part (process the bitmap per pixel) will remain too slow.

We (me and Kostadin) discuss an better idea and will work on it soon (I hope), so if you interested stay tuned.

Vue 9.5 xStream and Infinite PLE

The Personal Learning Edition (PLE) of E-on Vue xStream and Infinite updated to version 9.5 (all new features).

Visibility Assistant

A simple script by Pete Addington to facilitate setting visibilty keys on objects.
I'm an admirer of mapped functions in MaxScript and use them then it is possible, so am glad to see Pete has set his focus on them too.