SEA3D exporter

An open-source SEA3D exporter (script) for 3ds Max 2008 and newly was released by Sunag Entertainment. It export animation, bitmap, texture, material, geometry, skeleton (Skin), camera, light, environment and helper to Flash Plataform (Flash Player 11 or higher required). More info at ScriptSpot or at the project web page.

Form for 3ds Max

Form is a new (more human beings) modeling system (similar to zspheres) for 3ds Max by Marius Silaghi. Read more here.

Power ScanToNURBS

nPower Software has released Power ScanToNURBS, a new plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max that imports 3D scans as NURBS-based meshes. Read more.

Old fashion smoke chimney

Recently I help a little bit on almost ready scripted tool (by Danny McAuliffe) that made old fashion smoke chimney (read more here), but Denis Trofimov decide to move this task more forward by writing this as scripted primitive. The author plan to support future development of his plugin with new features, and he's open for questions and suggestions (read more here).

P.S. - I see that Danny McAuliffe add some features to it Chimney Maker and finally upload it to ScriptSpot.

Dimension modifier 1.2

One more update (I was promised) of my scripted Dimension modifier. More details you can read at it script page.

Dimension modifier 1.1

I get a some reasonable requests to update my scripted modifier Dimension. Now I just add a checkbox to can scale uniform (keep proporsion) using one spinner, but there one more request on which I'll take care of somewhere into the next days.

Vue 10 PLE now available

At December 20, E-on Software release Vue 10 xStream / Infinite Personal Learning Editions. Many major enhancements introduces.

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.

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.

Radial Symmetry

Radial Symmetry is the first and only 3DS Max modifier which allows you to model radial structures and see the end result.

More details.

Public CAT bugs And Requests

Autodesk customer feedback for 3ds Max forum (aka Autodesk Uservoice) has new section - PublicCATbugsAndRequests which s'd helps Autodesk to prioritize known CAT limitations and desired improvements.

E-on Vue R10 Pre-Release

At October 12, 2011, E-on Vue 10 Pre-Release available for users under maintenance. E-on planed upcoming Vue 10 release for early November 2011.

Autodesk acquires Alice Labs?

Fist photogrammetry technology Autodesk has acquired from Alice Labs was Project Photofly. But now the Alice Labs website is shuttered and there only a brief message:

"Autodesk has acquired technology from Alice Labs.
Customers needing maintenance or support should send an email to support@alicelabs.com."

What exact that means, is Autodesk acquired Studio Clouds (or other technology) form Alice Labs, or the whole lab? As the news at GraphicSpeak said (original news): "stealth acquisition" and "Everyone is being tight-lipped about the deal".

3D Environment Competition 2011 Winners Announced

The Vue 3D Environment Competition 2011 is closed and E-on announce the winners.

Forest Pack Pro review

Itoo Software's Forest Pack Pro review by Matt Guetta at MaxUnderground.

qHull2Max and JigsawMaker

Two interesting Max scripts was released recently by Havard Schei - qHull2Max and JigsawMaker. Check his web site for other of his public scripts.

Input Camera

Input Camera is a free tool by Michael Sharpe, allows the user to control FreeCamera in 3ds Max via XBOX 360 controller.

TimeWarp modifier

TimeWarp is a scripted modifier plugin by Jonathan de Blok designed for easy-nondestructive-time-remapping of animations. Very interesting solution based on Max's EaseCurves function. Read more at ScriptSpot.

Apache web version of Backburner monitor

Very interesting (to me) tutorial by Alex York on how to setup the apache web version of 3ds Max's Backburner monitor.

My sincere gratitude goes to the Max Underground (the best source for 3ds Max news)
where I read a news about this article.